Mike Magee van The Register claimt benchmarks te hebben van een PIII en K7 systeem. De benchmarks zouden afkomstig zijn van een ventje bij AOpen. De info vind je in dit nieuwsbericht. De grap is alleen dat er helemaal geen benchmarks staan, wel de specs van twee onwaarschijnlijk vette PIII en K7 systemen (Windoos 2000, Matrox G400 enz.). Dit is wat ze er bij AMD Zone over denken:
Mike Magee claims to have gotten some K7 Vs PIII benchmarks from the same Acer guy that said the marks for the K7 barely beat the PIII. Thing is that Mike's teaser for the article says things are looking good for AMD, yet there are no marks, only the specs for the systems, which for some reason is using the Windows 2000 beta release. I've been using that sucker for a couple of weeks and I most definitely wouldn't use if for benchmarking, unless of course it contained optimizations for the KNI instructions, and wanted to make any comparison as biased as possible towards Intel. Plus it uses a G400 chipset from Matrox. Another unreleased product, no telling if the drivers include 3DNow! or KNI optimizations, and I seriously doubt these are final. It also seems funny to me that this Acer guy hasn't been shut down by AMD yet from releasing marks, unless of course he is not from Acer at all. I have no idea if there are any further optimizations for either KNI or 3DNow!, so maybe I'm wrong. But I must say, trust no one. In fact, until I get benchmarks from a trusted source with the K7, I will be trusting no marks. And believe me, I can easily count the sources I trust one hand. ;)
