This really belongs on PC-BUILD not PC-SOFT--but:
Per an interview with Atiq Raza, Sr. VP of AMD in the October issue of
Maximum PC--
The K6-3 will have an onboard L2 cache AND use the current L2 cache on
the socket 7 mobo as a L3 cache.  The chip will not support the full
pipelined CPU, like Intel.  However, there will be communications
improvements the 3D unit in the chip and the graphics chip, showing at
10% improvement in games such as Quake over the k6-2 at the same
frequency.

Keep in mind these statements are direct from AMD--not based on any real
world tests.

Dan Shaughnessy

Sami Al-Mohssen wrote:
>
> Hello everyone
>
> I was wondering if any of you has some information about the K6-3. as I
> understand this CPU should include L2 cache on the chip (so it should run
> at the same CPU speed).
>
>  does it has any other features that should make it a worthwhile CPU?
>
> will the FPU unit be better?
>
> what kind of aplications that are going to benefit from faster cache
> speed?
>
> thank you
>
> Sami Al-Mohssen
>
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