From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 17 15:15:26 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 655EE37B424 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:15:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@closedsrc.org) Received: by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix, from userid 1003) id EF94A55407; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:10:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF9CB51610; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:10:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:10:08 -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: # 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