Author: Aaron Gordon
Date: 13:30:33 04/22/03
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On April 22, 2003 at 15:40:47, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >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 I just did some mp3 encoding benchmarks in linux with the "lame" encoder. Here are the results I have... P4-2.53GHz 133/533bus = 2 minutes, 27 seconds XP-2.50GHz 220/440bus = 1 minute, 19 seconds. I'll test GCC, bzip2 and others later.. but I can assure you the results will be nearly the same.
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