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Subject: Re: Benchmarks

Author: Joakim Nilsson

Date: 12:37:53 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
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>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
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>http://www.rebel.nl/bench.htm
I get 2567 on my K6-3 500.In fact,the K6-3 is faster than Athlon in Rebel10.Has
something to do with the Cache-speed.
AMD rules...



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