Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 23:48:45 02/14/00
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On February 15, 2000 at 02:36:23, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >On February 15, 2000 at 01:19:56, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>Now everybody knows that the Athlon is superior > >Since when? > >Sure, at first, an Athlon out-performed an equally clocked PIII in terms of raw >speed. The Coppermines significantly closed this speed gap. The Intel chips >also scale better to speeds around 750MHz and up, so the PIII-800 actually >out-performs the equivalent Athlon system on many benchmarks. > >Not to mention the other problems with AMD chips (excessive heat, flakiness, >etc.). Maybe integer is close, but Athlon is still killing the PIII on floating-point. Dave
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