Dear Mike, I almost always agree with; not so in this case.
it's not only the (performance per core) x (number of cores). the i5 is also far more capable then a K6-2 in single threaded/core mode - as it would be in any xxDOS setting. Tom am Donnerstag, 23. März 2023 um 20:42 schrieben Sie: > Your measurement methodology needs help? > The i5 is capable of far more work than the K6-2-350. What you are > doing is comparing a bus to a passenger car and stating that they > both are effective at carrying one person, and therefore the bus has no > additional value. > When running a simple single-threaded workload sure, the i5 might > not look like it's worth the extra silicon. Now go run 8 or 16 or > 32 copies of the same workload in parallel, and tell me how that > goes for the K6-2. Modern chips are designed for very different > things than chips from 20+ years ago, so the comparison is kind of > meaningless. > You're effectively measuring the clock speed, not what the chip is > capable of. And this isn't a surprise, but a 10x faster clock on a > single threaded benchmark results in 10x performance. While > completely ignoring the rest of the chip. We don't benchmark buses against > passenger cars. > On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 12:33 PM Bret Johnson <bretj...@juno.com> wrote: >>> Even though a 350 MHz K6-2 is WAY faster than my 3.3 GHz i5? And >>> again, I know it doesn't make any sense, but it's still true. >>> >>> As far as I can tell, the Emperor has no Clothes. >> >> I'm confused by this. You are claiming that a 350 Mhz K6-2 is "WAY" faster >> than a 3.3 GHz i5? In what respect? > My K6-2-350 runs about 15 times faster than a 33 MHz 386, while my > 3.3 GHz i5 runs only about 10 times faster, in both cases with the > caches enabled. What do you not understand? > You can try to claim that the SLOWDOWN test I performed is somehow > "tainted" or "unrealistic" or "unfair" or "sub-optimal" or something > like that, but the results are very real and are simply what they > are. Also, as already stated, the purpose of SLOWDOWN is not to be > a benchmark but you can indirectly use it as a benchmark. > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel Mit freundlichen Grüßen / with kind regards Tom Ehlert +49-15151898538 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
