Tom heeft het gepresteerd om twee weken na de Comdex nog met een report te komen. Lekker snel hoor.
Beter ooit dan nooit, dus hier maar een stukkie uit Tom's terugkijk op de Comdex. Echt veel was er volgens hem niet te beleven en de AMD K7 en Sharptooth waren verreweg het meest interessant:
There was of course a working K7-system in that room too, which ran a mixture of Winstone98 and 3D games at really high speed. I could not see any benchmark numbers, but the benchmark part ran faster than anything I've seen yet, definitely faster than a Pentium II 504.The second room showed two systems next to each other. The left one was a system equipped with AMD's Sharptooth, the upcoming K6-3 (if the name won't be changed), at 400 MHz. Sharptooth is nothing but K6-2's new CXT core with an on die L2 cache of 256 kB running at CPU core clock. The system to the right was a Pentium II 450 MHz system, equipped with the same peripherals. Again a mixture of business and high-end Winstone98 was ran, starting both systems at the same time. The Sharptooth finished those benchmarks significantly earlier than the Pentium II 450, proving that Sharptooth or K6-3 will be extremely fast in business applications, even faster than Pentium II at 50 MHz higher clock rate.
Verder nog wat info over de Voodoo3, Cyrix Webpad en een gecombineerd overzicht van Intel's en AMD's roadmap.
