Author: Kim Hvarre
Date: 04:03:35 07/10/98
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On July 10, 1998 at 06:53:00, Ed Schröder wrote: >>Posted by Kim Hvarre on July 10, 1998 at 05:46:37: > >>In Reply to: Re: Cool AMD 450 Mhz.... posted by Robert Hyatt on July 10, >>1998 at 00:35:52: > >>On July 10, 1998 at 00:35:52, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>snipsnip > >>>Somehow our benchmarks are different. First, I don't see how the Xeon is better >>>at context-switching than a normal PII.. that is independent of cache >>>completely. however, I have benched my P6/200 vs PII/300's and get 1.41 every >>>time I try, using crafty. The first benchmark data I got on a Xeon (source I >>>can't reveal) was exactly 2.25X faster than what I am getting on my P6/200. >>>This makes sense as crafty has no MMX code whatsoever, so that both processors >>>are using the same core technology and relative cache speeds. But note that I >>>am a real 32-bit application here with no known-to-be-bad stuff tucked away to >>>hurt performance. > >>>For comparison, the AMD K6 seems a perfect match for the P6/200 when the clocks >>>are matched... But the Xeon is clocked faster.. > >>Qouting from Ed's benchmarkpage: > >>Pentium PRO 200 1:02 7:38 1:57 0:19 4:56 0:26 >>Cyrix 200 1:22 10:12 2:20 0:17 3:45 0:22 >>AMD K6 200 0:47 5:50 1:30 0:15 3:45 0:20 > >>one must (?) conclude, that the Rebelcode has "known-to-be-bad stuffed tucked >>away" or? > >I do not think the better performance of Rebel on AMD in comparison with >Intel chips is related to the code. Rebel since version 6 is a normal >32-bit application. It was kind of rhetorical, i.e. I thought Rebel to be! >From postings from other programmers I noticed that AMD also runs their >programs faster than Intel. > >At the moment AMD by far is simply the best processor around. Agree! To this kind of calculations it is. >But the Intel (slot-2) is coming, will it out-perform AMD? > >Maybe, but certainly not in price. The last I read the chip will cost $4500. > >I pity Intel :) And I think kindly of my K6 every day - especially when Rebel once again has blown me down my chair ;) kim
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