From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 17 15:11:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (oahu.WURLDLINK.NET [216.235.52.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72A7137B42C for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:11:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA05341; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 12:10:42 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 12:10:42 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy To: Linh Pham Cc: Kris Kennaway , Marc W , Kyle , Subject: Re: the AMD factor in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Linh Pham wrote: > On 2001-04-17, Vincent Poy scribbled: > > # The other question is, will the AMD Athlon be a whole lot faster > # than a equivelent Intel PIII? and what about P4 support? or is that > # really worst than a PIII and AMD in terms of performance? > > Theoretically, a dual Athlon system would beat a dual Pentium III setup > not only because it has a better FPU, more L1 cache, but also because it > uses a 100/200Mhz or a 133/266Mhz DDR FSB. Also, a dual Pentium III uses > a shared bus to connect to the northbridge whereas a dual Athlon would > have two dedicated connections to the northbridge. This is where DDR > memory would have more of an impact on performance than SDRAM->DDR on a > single Athlon system. > > -- > Linh Pham > [lplist@closedsrc.org] > > // 404b - Brain not found Thanks for the insight but what about in a Single CPU environment? Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message