AMD Ships World`s First 700MHz x86 ProcessorSunnyvale 05 Oct 99 The AMD Athlon processor's seventh-generation microarchitecture, fully pipelined, superscalar floating point engine, and high-bandwidth, 200MHz system bus enable it to achieve unparalleled floating-point, integer and multimedia performance levels for x86 computer systems. The 700MHz AMD Athlon processor significantly outperforms the highest-performing Intel Pentium(R) III processor, a 600MHz processor, on a broad range of exacting commercial and consumer applications, including digital content creation, 3D graphics, commercial 3D modeling, CAD/workstation, image compression, speed recognition and mainstream applications. The AMD Athlon processor family now includes a wide offering of processor speeds, from 500 to 700MHz. With the most powerful floating point engine ever created for x86 platforms, the 700MHz AMD Athlon processor delivers the ultimate visual computing experience, and enables superior performance for scientific, mathematical and engineering applications. A 700MHz AMD Athlon processor-based system delivers significantly better floating point performance than comparably configured Pentium III 600MHz systems, according to the results of SPECfp_base95 and WinBench(TM) 99 FPU WinMark benchmark tests. For example, a 700MHz AMD Athlon processor has more than 57 percent higher performance than a 600MHz Pentium III on the SPECfp_base95 benchmark. A 700MHz AMD Athlon processor-based system outperforms comparably configured 600Mz Pentium III systems as measured by leading integer benchmarks such as the SPECint_base95 and WinBench(R) 99CPUmark(TM) 99 benchmarks. A 700 MHz AMD Athlon processor-based system outperforms a 600MHz Pentium III by more than 45 percent on the WinBench(R) 99 CPUmark(TM) 99 benchmark.
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