Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 21:35:02 09/11/99
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Do you have any actual data, or are you going on what has been reported in magazines? -Tom On September 11, 1999 at 18:07:59, Alain Lyrette wrote: > >On September 11, 1999 at 04:47:18, Baldomero Garcia, Jr. wrote: > >>Every once in a while the topic of computer processors shows up. >>Well, I was just looking at the "computer shopper" and they were talking about >>the K-7 Athlon, from AMD. It looks like the 600 MHZ Athlon is faster than the >>PIII 600 MHZ. Independent testing from a video game magazine seemed to confirm >>that point of view. >> >>Has anybody had a chance to use computer programs with this processor? >>It definitely seems interesting. >>btw, there is also a 650 MHZ version of the Athlon too, but I'm not sure it's >>that big a jump from the 600 MHZ. >> >>Baldo. >Well as you know,the improvement seen in the Athlon over the pentium relies >mainly in the floating point domain;since chess programming has absolutely >nothing to do with fpu the Athlon is a bit of a let down.Sure it's about 10% >faster than it's intel rival in integer but so was the k6-3.Of course the Athlon >as already reach the speed of 650mhz while the k6-3 is limited at 450mhz for >now.That would be good for a 30-40 elo improvement but not more.So the k7 is >certainly no breakthrough for chess programming.But if you like to play 3D >games too the thing screams.....
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