On 14 Aug 98 at 8:57, Don Gray wrote:

> Jun Qian wrote:
>
> >> Some of the hype on the AMD web site says it will run Quake II as fast as a
> >> Pentium 2 400. Any thoughts on the subject will be greatly appreciated.
>
> > Even there is no defference runing Quake II on a K6 or a PII, the K6 FPU is
> > still much slower than PII, which does matter if you'd like to play 3D game.
> >
> > J Qian
>
> Does that really make a difference if your using a 3D graphics card?  In other
> words, does a good 3D game card override the performance loss on a CPU?

  Really good 3D cards will take as much work as the CPU will give
them -- this moves the bar, but the limit is still based on the CPU
for a while yet.

  It's interesting to watch how "Quake and Quake II are written to
take advantage of FPU pipelining on Intel processors" turns into
"Cyrix and AMD are no good for games".  It's a bit broader
generalization than is really called for.

David G