I'm still convinced that there's hardly a better floating point benchmark than 3D-rendering software. 3D Studio Max has served us well for quite a while and although it is optimized for Intel's P6-architecture, it's still a highly realistic test. 3D Studio Max was of course ran under Windows NT.

Well, you may see why this is my favorite benchmark out of them all. Athlon 600 is no less than 45.3 % faster tha
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Summary
- Introduction
- Block Diagrams
- 3-way Instruction Decoder - It's Not Quite The Same, Baby!
- The Instruction Control Unit
- The Execution Ports Continued
- The Pipeline
- The Pipeline Continued
- FPU
- mmX
- The Second Level Cache
- The First Level Cache
- Athlon's EV6 Bus
- System Bus
- Athlon's First Chipset AMD 750 'Irongate'
- Future Athlon Models
- Architectural Summary
- Benchmarking AMD's Athlon
- Intel's Defensive Early Release Of Pentium III 600
- The Benchmark Mix
- The System Setup
- The Results A - Office Application Benchmarks
- The Results A - Office Application Benchmarks Continued
- The Results A - Office Application Benchmarks Continued
- The Results B - Floating Point Benchmarks