Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Mar 1997 14:13:55 -0800 (PST) | From | Kaitlin Rachael Silver <> | Subject | Re: MMX Technologie |
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On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Elijah L. Wright wrote:
> > > > > K6 is AMD's pentium-pro comeptitive chip, and it has MMX instructions. > > > Hmm. Are the instructions compatible all the way down-to-the-wire with > > > those from Intel?? Just a thought. Might be an easy way to build a > > > really fast, inexpensive machine. > > I would assume so ... I know a few people with Cyrix or AMD based > > Linux boxes ... > > Forgot to mention that I was wondering about the MMX compatibility in > particular... and what about the cache sizes on the AMD chips? =)
Speaking of comparisons, Does anyone know how well the Math co-processors of AMD chips compare to intel chips? I recall Cyrix chips (hint hint my old 5x86 which was no better than a 486) had nice cpu's and horrible fpu's so I was just curious. Does anyone have benchmarks?
-kait
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