Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 23:34:53 +0100 From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> To: Kitt Diebold <kitt-lists@connecticom.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pentium Pro vs AMD Message-ID: <1510.199907112234@doyle.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Kitt Diebold's message of Sun, 11 Jul 1999 11:31:14 -0400
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> I have two hardware options available to me to put a web server on > to, a Pentium Pro 180 w/ 256K cache, and an AMD 300. Do you mean an AMD K6-2 300, running with 100MHz bus (the usual configuration)? If so, I think you will find it much faster in general than a PPro 180. The area where the PPro will come closest is floating point; AMD's floating point before the K7 is very poor (though the 100MHz bus is a win for processing big arrays). Integer performance is likely to be at least 25% better on the AMD. And you can probably cheaply upgrade the AMD to a 400+Mhz version. > Does FreeBSD take advatage of the Pentium Pro's wider > bus? I didn't know it had one! The PPro's big advantage was the on-chip cache running at processor speed, but if processor speed is 180MHz that's not such a big deal now. -- Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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