De Pentium III Coppermine wordt vandaag officieel gereleased, verwacht dus een truckload aan Coppermine reviews de komende dagen. Ace's Hardware is de eerste met een Coppermine 733 vs Athlon 700 comparison. Dankzij de superieure FPU performance is de Athlon nog steeds sneller in (3D) games, maar de Coppermine gaat de Athlon net voorbij in de applicatie benchmarks:
Intel has done a good job with the Coppermine. The Athlon is still faster in FPU intensive applications, but Intel has regained the crown of the fastest business application processor. Some people might find it dissappointing that the Athlon is not faster in everything. "Is that all a 7-th generation core can do ?". Caches are extremely important now. If you want to determine to which generation a processor belongs, you should not compare cores with different cache configurations. Disable the L1 and the L2 cache of a PIII or Athlon and even a good old pentium (p54) beats them both...The Athlon has a LOT of headroom. An integrated L2-cache, a 266 MHz EV6- bus and DDR SDRAM might do some wonders for the Athlon's performance.
It is a pity that Intel still abuses their strong position on the market to ask exorbitant prices for the Coppermine. Due to the Coppermine shortage ? Or does it indicates that Intel is still not convinced that it has a real competitor ? Let us hope that AMD proves this vision to be wrong, as it will benefit all customers. Our time with the Coppermine system was very limited. We hope to bring you more in the next weeks...
Fiets richting Ace's Hardware voor de info en benchmarks.
