Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 13:19:40 01/24/00
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On January 24, 2000 at 15:54:38, Howard Exner wrote: >I went back to the store today and loaded Rebel Decade 2.0 and ran a quick speed >test. A problem that takes 7:04 on my AMD 233 took 3:33 on the >P3-800, both in dos mode. So for this test twice as fast, not exactly what I >expected. Other programs will no doubt test out differently. Yes, it depends on the programs, but in general, the K6 does more work per clock cycle than the P6. It also does more work per clock cycle than the Athlon. This is all to be expected, b/c if you want to increase the clock speed a whole lot, you can't do as much work per clock cycle... > The salesman talked about the onboard L2 cache for the P3 but said that Athlon >is eventually going that route also >with a 512 cache size. Being a long time user of AMD chips I most likely will >wait awhile to see how the newer Athlons will perform. Your salesman is surprisingly well-informed. =) -Tom
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