On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 03:21:44PM +0100, Michael Oates wrote:
>Well I heard that with some programs (and Prime95 may just be that type of
>program) may run up to 40% faster than a Pentium III of the same speed.
That sounds like an AMD figure... If I remember the discussion right, Prime95
can't (even with a recode) utilize all three pipelines of the Athlon. You'd
probably get 10% (SWAG) over a PIII at the same clock frequency.
>Also a single Athlon is cheaper than a dual PIII, so for the money the
>Athlon may be a much better bet.
That is, of course, a valid point. But if you only want performance for the
money, the Celeron is _much_ better than all other (x86-compatible) CPUs on
the market -- it's cheap, and it is in fact (at least in the last benchmark
I read) a bit quicker than a PIII at the same clock frequency. (Perhaps a
little slower, but at least not outperformed.) Same for FP work (read: Prime95).
And there will be Celerons with Streaming SIMD (aka KNI) soon, too.
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