Carmack on K7!

Jul 03, 1999 8:42pm CST tags: Hardware (PC only)
Yo check this out! John Carmack has updated the .plan talking about AMD's Athlon (although he still calls it by its engineering code name, K7). Now I have got to check this hot little CPU out. Here's a bit from the man himself:

Run at 640*480*16 bit color to emphasise the cpu/driver performance rather than the hardware fill rate.

K7-600 K7-550 PIII-500
TNT2 ultra 16 bit 73.9 68.5 53.8
Voodoo3 3000 16 bit 70.5 65.2 46.0

He continues on with quite a bit more info as well as the usual work-log. Big thanks to Vic.

        

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