On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, fred smith wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 04:20:00PM -0500, Ezra Nugroho wrote: > > We have dual athlon servers running on RH7.1 and 7.2. > > No problem at all. > > In the old age, K6 2 and K6 3 were better faster for floating point > > operations compared to P2 and PIII. > > At the risk of slipping off-topic, I must respectfully disagree. The > K6-x product line (I own four of 'em, BTW, they're nice processors for > low priced systems) has a notoriously weak FPU. For integer work it's as > good as a pentium of equal clock speed, but can't hold a candle to Intel's > FPU.
It comes fairly close. Bearing in mind that the Intel FPU was supposedly capable of going "twice as fast" due to pipelining, I was interested to note that most of the published benchmarks showed the K6-III to come in at about the same performance clock-for-clock when running 3D games; and as you say, for integer work they're blazing. I have a K6-III 400 which I find "feels" a lot faster than a PII 400 in my desktop at work. And for a third of the price (when I bought it) I call it a good deal -- that's a 3:1 price:performance ratio. Hard to beat, I'd say. Even allowing for the rest of the machine the ratio was still 3:2 :o) Given that several reviews appear to have compared the 400MHz K6-2/3 against PIII-500 I think it held its own. A lot of the problems were due to most games and video drivers being optimized for the PII/PIII and not for the AMD ... on Linux that wasn't such a problem, a lot of Mesa code includes 3DNow! optimizations, for example. I found that 3D games worked very well. All in all, I'd have to say that having the opportunity not to buy Intel, and get pretty much the same performance for a third of the price, is priceless. I will endeavour not to buy Intel again. It's just not worth it. I will concede that they lost both the marketing battle and most of the attention-grabbing benchmarks, which is a shame, as for anything other than 3D games, the K6-III beat the PII hands down. > Now, the Athlon, OTOH, has a FPU at least a strong as Intel's, some would > say it's even better. Athlon smokes. Really. > Fred _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
