Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:59:14 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> To: Linh Pham <lplist@closedsrc.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Marc W <mwlist@lanfear.com>, Kyle <freebsd@sysmach.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: the AMD factor in FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0104171657510.4840-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104171507100.44584-100000@q.closedsrc.org>
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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
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