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Subject: Re: AMD K6 500 or Pentium III 500?

Author: Wayne Lowrance

Date: 11:25:51 10/14/99

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On October 14, 1999 at 09:37:34, Bertil Eklund wrote:

>On October 14, 1999 at 08:57:30, Pillsbury wrote:
>
>>Hi!
>>
>>Could anyone advise which of the following processors is better to handle
>>programs like Fritz6 or Hiarcs 7.32?
>>
>>               AMD K6 500 or PentiumIII 500
>>
>>Whats the basic differences in these processors that affect users in all the
>>other areas like multimedia etc.?
>>
>>Thanks in anticipation.
>>
>>karthick
>
>Hallo!
>
>AMD K6-2 is faster on average (clockwise). Comparison P3 vs AMD K6-2
>
>Hiarcs is slightly faster on Pentium
>Fritz  is slightly faster on AMD
>Junior and Nimzo is faster on AMD
>Rebel is much faster on AMD
>CST is very much faster on AMD
>Crafty is much faster on Pentium
>
>AMD K6-3 is better to clearly better then K6-2
>AMD K6-3 is about 125% faster vs Pentium (T Szub)
>
>Athlon is about the same as AMD K6-3 for most chess-programs.
>
>Bertil SSDF


Bertil I am interested in the AMD K7 Athlon @ 600 Mhz, do you have any test data
? I asked on a earlier post and received a thread where the Athlong was
considerably faster than a P111 comparable with his program. What about the K7
700 mhz ?
Wayne



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