How about some REAL WORLD benchmarks? (Score 1)

Oops, forgot to log in. Did you bother to read the text of the article at all? The point was not that 3D Now! was bad, the point was what kinds of benefits you could expect from programs with KNI optimization over a standard 686 compiled version. I'm sure a 3D Now! optimized version would be somewhere up near the top of all of those benchmarks. The reason such "non-real world" benchmark tools were used was because there are NO good standard benchmarks for either of the new instruction sets. I'll admit Tom ran a pretty one sided review with lots of programs that had KNI optimizations and few with 3D Now!, but I don't think he tried to misrepresent that at all. Wait a minute, where are the 3D Now! optimized programs to do benchmarking? I guess AMD forgot to tell people to make them. Maybe that's why I would want to buy an AMD chip, crappy floating point and no developer support. Or is it the moderately better Win98 performance? Could someone please tell me the obvious advantage other then price that I am missing here?