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To: Ali Chen who wrote (1972)	11/5/1997 7:26:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (3) of 6843

Ali, the Cyrix MX233 and AMD K6-233 really kicked Intel's butt in those benchmarks. pctoday.com IMHO, the BAPCo SYSmark benchmarks, based solely on real-world applications, are much more accurate than the stuff Ziff-Davis is now using, which doesn't use many applications and includes "synthetic" benchmarks. When PC Magazine found that a Cyrix MX-233 system got a much higher result than any Intel MMX-233 system ever tested, they decided that it was due to a faster disk system and therefore they won't use that test anymore (I think it was "Gaussian Blur" with Adobe Photoshop). Quotes on the Intel Pentium 233 MMX: The Pentium received an overall score of 229 in our SYSmark for Windows 95 benchmarks-a far cry from first place. Surprisingly, the Pentium fared even worse in our SYSmark for Windows NT tests. Its overall score of 168 again put it in last place and scores across the board were mediocre. Here's the complete table of benchmark results. Intel is in last place in every single test. Intel P55C-233 vs. AMD K6-233 vs. Cyrix 6x86MX PR233 Pinnacle Computing Resources PC with a GigaByte 586TX motherboard and 64MB RAM Using BAPCo's SYSmark for Windows 95 and SYSmark for Windows NT 4.0 Intel AMD Cyrix ----- ----- ----- Windows 95 Benchmarks Desktop Graphics 272 307 327 Desktop Presentation 227 240 264 Desktop Publishing 210 230 238 Word Processing 223 246 247 Database 201 220 263 Spreadsheet 247 248 287 Overall 229 244 263 Windows NT Benchmarks Project Management 184 186 296 CAD 174 188 191 Presentation 166 214 193 Word Processing 160 181 173 Spreadsheet 159 175 174 Overall 168 188 201 *Final Word:* Intel: Solid numbers; weak compared to the other players AMD: Better than the Pentium, but lagging behind the 6x86MX Cyrix: Best performance; lowest price PC Today Online 11/5/97 pctoday.com Petz

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