>Thomas Pabst (of Tom's Hardware Page, http://www.tomshardware.com) just
>returned from Microprocessor Forum 98 with a wealth of AMD K7 info. In
>general, it looks very promising. But relevant to GIMPS, here's what he says
>about the FPU:
>
>>The Floating Point Unit
>>Haven�t we been taught by Intel how important the FPU is all those years?
>>Well, it�s looking pretty obvious that K7 will smoke Intel�s P6 FPU. K7
>>offers no less than 3 (three!) out-of-order, fully parallel FPU pipelines.
...
well, AMD claimed K6-2 3Dnow was gonna smoke everything too, that has yet to
be seen. The benchmarks *I've* seen for 3Dnow enabled DirectX and OpenGL apps
have been less than impressive. Yeah, it just about holds its own against
same clock speed intel processors. its cheaper.
The jury is still out on any new AMD chip until they deliver in quantity.
Meanwhile, Intel has Katmai rolling out soon.
-jrp
