Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 12:37:44 09/22/99
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On September 22, 1999 at 10:30:45, Joshua Lee wrote: >Hello. >I have a fairly slow machine and want to upgrade. I have heard and seen results >showing that AMD is better than intel , and i'm not just talking about the >Athlon. To get to the point which ZD Benchmark would one look at? All the >regular run of the mill ZD Benchmarks shows that the Intel processors should be >faster but it isn't so if you look at Test Suites like the results at Rebel's >homepage. Would you look at Business Winstone99? CPUMark99? FPUWinMark? >3DWinMark? Photoshop Twirl? High End Winstone????not to sound repetitive(but i >do hehe) at rebel's page for instance (this has probably been mentioned here by >others but not discussed in depth) >AMD K6-2 300 0:14 1:01 1:40 2544 >Pentium II 333 0:14 1:06 1:47 2538 >Pentium II 400 0:12 0:53 1:27 2550 >Pentium II Xeon 400 0:09 0:47 1:17 2556 >AMD K6-2 400 0:09 0:46 1:16 2557 >Pentium II 450 0:11 0:50 1:21 2554 >Pentium II Xeon 450 0:09 0:45 1:13 2558 >AMD K6-2 450 0:09 0:43 1:10 2560 >AMD K6-3 450 0:07 0:36 1:00 2566 >Pentium III 500 0:09 0:44 1:12 2557 >AMD K6-2 500 0:08 0:40 1:04 2564 > >How is a K6-2 450 faster than a Pentium II Xenon 450!!!!! I missed the ZD >Benchmark for that one i guess. Maybe soomeone can clear this up for me I would >really appreciate it. Thank You > > >http://www.rebel.nl/bench.htm Generally you are looking for a benchmark for *integer* performance rather than floating point. But there's no way of knowing which processor best suits which program unless the author keeps a list (like Ed). Andrew
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