From: Allan Ballard (aballard_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sun Aug 20 2000 - 19:15:03 EDT
Looks like the benches you present all support
the same conclusion, that the AMD133's relative
speed is a jump up.
If you had beefed the cache to 1Mb, your spread
would have been greater.
BTW, do you remember the p83 plug in for the
486 machines" I tried one for fun, but the AMD133
blew it away.
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000 11:43:26 -1000, David Ross wrote:
>"My AMD133 (486 socket plug-in) tests the
>same as a p90. The difference is produced
>by more L1 cache."
>
>The AMD133 is faster than an Intel 486-133 would be, if such a thing
>existed.
>
>The relative speed of the AMD chip depends a lot on the benchmark being
>used;
>I have a web page devoted to this
>(http://www.math.hawaii.edu/~ross/cpu.shtml);
>it says something about the popularity of old technology that it
>continues to be
>oft-viewed (over 1200 hits since I added a hit counter about a year
>ago).
>
>- David R.
>
>
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