Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 00:30:52 02/15/00
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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.). AMD is using an inferior process and they're still trouncing Intel. AMD is easily making 850MHz Athlons using their 0.25 micron process. Intel is obviously struggling to make 800MHz PIIIs using their 0.18 micron process. Now that the PIII has on-board L2 cache, its integer scores are as good as the Athlon's. But it still gets worked at floating-point. And imagine how awesome the Dresden Athlons will be... (0.18 micron copper interconnect process, integrated L2 cache...) Excessive heat and flakiness were problems with earlier AMD processors, but I have read many reviews of the Athlon and everybody says it's running cool and bang-on stable. And it overclocks beautifully. With only a 0.05 volt change to Vcc, most < 600MHz parts will work great at 750+ MHz. -Tom
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