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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