Isn't the 3DNOW ! FPU less 'bits' than the Intel one? Didn't we go through
this loop a while back and come to the conclusion that it was no use to 'us'
as it wasn't double precision ( or some thing like that ) ?
Phil Brett
>>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.
