Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:01:40 -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.4.33.0104171458290.44584-100000@q.closedsrc.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0104171201020.4840-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>
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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
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