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From: Bailey Brown
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 00:00

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"Leonard F. Agius" <"nospamlfagius"@ noapamDHOL.com> wrote:

>How fast is the AMD K-6?  MY K-6 233 did well on the Winbench 97 test:
>
>CPUMark16	467 
>CPUmark32	574 
>
>I ran Wintune 97 too:
>
>Dhrystone 466 MIPS
>Whetstone 143 MLFOPS
>

P5-MMX running at 225MHz in Wintune:

Dhrystone  433 MIPS
Whetstone 128 MFLOPS

If all you care about is software-rendering version of Quake, get the
Intel.  If you care more about other things, or run GLQuake, get the
K6.

Quake was tweaked to get every last bit of performance out of the
Pentium's pipelined FPU.  AMD's FPU is faster but is not piplelined,
so code that is tweaked for max performance on a pipelined FPU will
run slower on K6.  Less hand-tweaked fp code will probably run faster
on K6 than Intel.

Bailey

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From: dont_spam_me@spamhaters.com (Bailey Brown)
Subject: Re: How fast is the AMD K6?
Date: 1997/11/11
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