Re: [OT] How fast is a PIII?

1999-08-06 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I wrote: Does anyone know how fast is a PIII, say 500MHz? How does it compare to PII or Celeron? http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,391810,00.html says it's only 8% faster than PII at same clock speed when running business apps on Windows. If anyone has Linux

Re: [OT] How fast is a PIII?

1999-08-06 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 09:48:05AM +0200, E.L. Meijer Eric wrote: 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. IIRC, the 2nd level

Re: [OT] How fast is a PIII?

1999-08-06 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 12:27:25PM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote: On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 09:48:05AM +0200, E.L. Meijer Eric wrote: 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

Re: [OT] How fast is a PIII?

1999-08-06 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
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. IIRC, the 2nd level cache of the Pentium III is running at the same speed as the

Re: [OT] How fast is a PIII?

1999-08-06 Thread Kenneth Scharf
The PII is built on an older process than the PIII. The PIII-450 is the slowest member of the PIII family, while the PII-450 is the fastest. As a result yields on the PII450 are much smaller than that of the PIII450.This will explain why the PII-450 costs a little more than the PIII-450.

Re: [OT] How fast is a PIII?

1999-08-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 05:21:09AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: The PIII streaming MMX instructions were designed for realtime video. Don't know if the gcc compiler supports them yet, or if any mpeg or They're supported by binutils and you can use them in inline assembly, but gcc has no

[OT] How fast is a PIII?

1999-08-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Does anyone know how fast is a PIII, say 500MHz? How does it compare to PII or Celeron? Thanks

Re: [OT] How fast is a PIII?

1999-08-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: Does anyone know how fast is a PIII, say 500MHz? How does it compare to PII or Celeron? http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,391810,00.html says it's only 8% faster than PII at same clock speed when running business apps on Windows. If anyone has Linux benchmarks, post