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Subject: Re: A Strange Result, A P-IV at 1.7 Ghz Outperforms an Athlon at I.4 Ghz!

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 21:54:52 01/20/02

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On January 20, 2002 at 22:02:10, Terry McCracken wrote:

>Can anyone explain how and why a P-IV at 1.7 Ghz with 512MB (PC800) RDRAM
>outperformed an Athlon running at 1.4 Ghz with 266Mgh DDR Bus and 256MB of SDRAM
>on a Fritzmark by a wide margin?
>
>The Fritzmark for the Pentium was 749 and the AMD a mere 548! Why? This is
>contrary to the findings of this forum. That is a difference of 201, that is
>large!
>
>An explantion would be appreciated, thanks!
>
>Terry

Hello Terry,
I don't know whose AMD you used but it's due an overhaul!  My FritzMark for my
1.4G Athlon is 890 (1285K/nps)(32M hash).  It's an ordinary Athlon with standard
PC133 SDRAM.
Jim



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