Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:10:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham <lplist@closedsrc.org> To: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> 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.4.33.0104171507100.44584-100000@q.closedsrc.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0104171210170.4840-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>
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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). 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). -- 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
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