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Subject: Re: Athlon 1,1GHz

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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