Re: [OT] How fast is a PIII?
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> I wrote:
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> > Does anyone know how fast is a PIII, say 500MHz?
> > How does it compare to PII or Celeron?
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> http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,391810,00.html
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> says it's only 8% faster than PII at same clock speed when
> running business apps on Windows.
> If anyone has Linux benchmarks, post 'em!
The only difference between a PII and a PIII at the same clock speed
that I know of are the extra `SSE' instructions that are mainly useful
for 3D stuff and maybe some other floating point intensive software. As
far as I know, there are currently no compilers for linux that actually
use these instructions, so I would expect the difference is about 0%.
HTH,
Eric
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E.L. Meijer (tgakem@chem.tue.nl)
Eindhoven Univ. of Technology
Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
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