Author: Terry Ripple
Date: 01:10:21 07/26/99
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On July 25, 1999 at 10:23:28, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On July 25, 1999 at 02:38:08, blass uri wrote: > >>I am interested to know the speed improvement that you get from celeron relative >>to pentium200MMX in C chess programs. >> >>Can you get more than 100% speed improvement? >>What is your experience about it? >> >>Uri > > >Several points. The celeron cpu core is better than the P200/mmx core. The >P200 is the old P5 architecture. The Celeron is based on the pentium pro/ >pentium II cpu core. Which is _much_ better. > >The celeron has both a L1 _and_ a L2 cache (running at core cpu speed, >although the L2 is only 128kb). The old P200 has a good L1 cache (same >as Celeron) the the L2 cache is external and much slower. > >For comparison, I used to run crafty on a P233/mmx machine and found that to >be about 70% of the speed of my pentium pro 200. The celeron is a good match >for the pentium-pro clock for clock. 450/500 celerons scream... -------- Hi Bob, In the case of the AMD K6-2, how would this compare to the celeron and pentium -pro clock for clock? -------- Regards, Terry
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