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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Profits who wrote (30141)3/24/1998 3:51:00 AM
From: Investor A  Read Replies (1) of 1570842
 
Here is a post from chip newsgroup as the performance benchmarm on the
cachless PII-266 vs K6-233.

I would like to draw your attention toward the cacheless PII that this
cacheless PII simply disclosd the fact that Intel could not innovate
or is not capable to modify their own core business: x86 CPU. The cacheless PII makes Intel technlogy shortfall nake in front of the PC world. What a shame!

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Anthony Hill wrote:
>
>
> The point is not that the PII isn't the fastest, but WHY the
> PII is faster, and it has very little, if anything, to do with the
> processor core itself (which is only slightly better then the
> original Pentium). The reason why the PII is so fast is that it has
> a fast L2
> cache. Considering that the original thread was about the fact that
> Intel will be making PIIs without ANY L2 cache at all, this is
> actually a reasonably significant point. Just as a little side
> note, would anyone with a PII 266MHz chip want to run some
> benchmark comparisons with their L2 cache on (like a normal PII)
> and then with the L2 cache disabled via the BIOS (like one of the
> upcoming Covington
> chips)? Would be kinda interesting to compare.
>

Same components other then the MoBo & CPU:

iPII 266 iPII 266 K6 233
W/ Cache W/O Cache

WS97
Bus 52.2 36.9 48.1
High 23.7 17.5 20.7

WB97
Bus Disk 1150 1040 1140
High Disk 4340 4050 4160
CPU 16 524 293 479
CPU 32 691 298 591
Bus Graph 101 67.4 90.1
High Graph 44.1 29.6 40.9

3D Winbench97 184 133 116

Worse then I thought...

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John Howland / Specialty Tech - MoBo's, CPU's, Memory...
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