Author: Keith Conary
Date: 08:19:58 03/23/00
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On March 23, 2000 at 08:41:04, Peter Skinner wrote: > >So thus it would still be my conclusion that the AMD is great for performance in >some areas, but surely will never out perform an Intel processor when dealing >with high scale rendering. There is still the possibility that your system is flawed either by drivers or compatible components used with your athlon. The Athlon is currently in a developmental stage where it currently boast off-die level 2 caching which restricts the capabilites of the processor. This is where Intel enjoys it's advantage over AMD. Because of Intel's integrated on-die level 2 caching system it out performs AMD in gaming situations while the Athlon excels in business applications that are FPU intensive in nature. The roles are reversed now as AMD was in the past limited to only competing with Intel in the gaming market and falling short with weak results in the FPU area. As AMD continues to enhance the Athlon platform, it's next step is to move to an integrated level 2 caching system, thus introducing the newest processor based on the K75 architecture code named "Thunderbird". This processor which is planned to release early late Q3 or Q4 of this year will close the performance gap with Intel and clearly outperformed any Intel processor on a clock for clock basis. So I would lead your attention to reviews discussing the detailed architechture of the Athlon posted at Tom's Hardware and Anandtech.com's websites. Because one can't draw conclusion of a general nature based on his or her own computer setup. Keith
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