From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 17 15: 7: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6B5037B43C for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:06:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@closedsrc.org) Received: by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 4F6B555407; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:01:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F9EE51610; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:01:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:01:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: Vincent Poy 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message