Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 12:40:47 04/22/03
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On April 21, 2003 at 19:41:22, Aaron Gordon wrote: >On April 21, 2003 at 17:41:17, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>On April 21, 2003 at 14:46:27, Aaron Gordon wrote: >> >>>>Not really. Processors have their strengths and weaknesses. I'm sure you could >>>>find some pathological code that runs much slower on the Athlon than the P4. >>> >>>If you find anything, let me know. So far I know of nothing. I however know >>>of *MANY* things that run pitiful on a p4. >> >>IIRC, a game of life thing I wrote a few months ago ran 2-3x slower on my AXP >>2000+ than on my 2.2GHz P4. Also I think the P4 has won pretty much every media >>encoding benchmark I've seen, often by large margins. > >Thats also bandwidth intensive, and it just so happens most pages run the bios >timings at the absolute lowest setting making the Athlons bandwidth horrible. >Pick ANY multimedia program, grab a P4 and lets benchmark against my system. >I've already done the benchmarks, as I said in a previous email.. properly >configured Athlons (non-gimped bioses) will beat a P4 any day. Any time you'd >like me to back it up let me know. :) Well, just to eliminate any sort of bias, let's go to SPECint-- gzip - P4 faster vpr - about even gcc - P4 significantly faster mcf - P4 WAY faster crafty - AXP faster parser - P4 faster eon - about even perlbmk - about even gap - P4 a lot faster vortex - about even bzip2 - about even twolf - about even I don't see the P4 doing horribly on any of these tests and it does quite well on several. -Tom
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