From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 17 19:59:52 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 21DCC37B423 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 19:59:49 -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 QAA09245; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:59:14 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:59:14 -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: > > # Thanks for the insight but what about in a Single CPU environment? > > The AMD Athlon tends to beat the Pentium III in most cases (when > matching Mhz... faster Athlons will fly by a Pentium III without a > problem). The Pentium 4 tends to beat the Athlon in memory bandwidth > intensive cases (ie: MPEG-4 encoding, some streaming media apps) and in > Quake III (that's because the Q3 code is heavily optimized for the P3/P4 > processors anyways). I thought the Athlon's will beat the P4 and even the PIII's will beat the P4's atleast according to this article.. http://www.emulators.com/pentium4.htm > The only thing truly holding back the Athlon are the chipsets. Via > chipsets aren't nearly as good as AMD's or Intel's (definitely nowhere > as good as Intel's). That's probably true... The VIA chipsets seems to be more expensive than the Intel's for some reason. 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