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Subject: Re: Faster than dual Xeon 2.8GHz?

Author: Pavel Blokhine

Date: 13:46:14 04/22/03

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On April 22, 2003 at 16:30:33, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>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.


Where did you get your XP-2.50 Ghz? Do they come in Dual too?



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