Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 13:43:03 01/24/00
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On January 24, 2000 at 16:19:40, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >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 I got a new price list today, and usually that doesn't happen mid-month from the guy I get them from. Intel announced a price drop, and while the data is in Excel and I'm on a unix box right now (so I can't view it) I suspect the reason is because the 800s are out. Dave
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