Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 14:26:43 04/22/03
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On April 22, 2003 at 16:46:14, Pavel Blokhine wrote: >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? There are no 2.5 GHz AMDs (Not yet). He is an overclocker. Not as crazy as this guys though: http://www.crazyoverclock.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=205
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