Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:25:40 07/26/99
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On July 26, 1999 at 04:10:21, Terry Ripple wrote: >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 The data I have seen puts them pretty equal cycle-for-cycle, although I am not sure of the differences between the K6/3 and K6/2. And I am not sure which was used in the test I saw...
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