At 11:19 AM 10/16/98 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
>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 K6-2 seems to do better on very limited benchmarks if the software is
especially written for the K6-2. In the real world, though, the K6-2 FPU is
about half as fast as a P-II at the same clock speed, and P-II clock speeds
are
higher.
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