matze79 wrote:The K6-3 suffers still from a weak FPU and i can't really recommend it to play 3D Games 😀
Weaker then a PIII, on par wih a PII. The only thing holding the K6-III back is the slower socket 7 platform. 500MHz P II v.s. 500MHz P III v.s. 550MHz K6-III+ benchmarks!
This annoys me to no end since all the tests I've done show the K6-III to be on par with a Pentium II in 3d and slightly slower then a celeron, sans for P54C optimized games like quake. Yes, the K6-III takes a big hit in games like expandible, but the PII is not far ahead. In Quake, Quake 2, Half-Life, Dungeon Keeper II, Hexen II and other period games the K6-III will perform just like an equivalently clocked Pentium II. Not to mention there are some 3dnow patches witch give it a 20% advantage over the pentium II. Some games even naively support 3dnow (homeworld) - so overall the K6-III is NOT slower then the PII in real world 3D (and is a lot faster in synthetics) - please stop spreading this bull.
The pentium III is another matter. It has SSE witch lots of later games use (best example would be Quake III) and scales up a lot better then the K6-III. A 600MHz PIII wrecks a 600MHz K6-III due to diminishing returns in the K6's risc86 architecture.