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- From: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (Patrick Taylor)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: AMD rubbish????
- Message-ID: <exuptr.435.0@exu.ericsson.se>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 22:14:10 GMT
- References: <1992Dec8.093121.89@roads.sa.gov.au: <1992Dec12.032716.16273@sugra.uucp> <Bz9H1y.6oE@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec14.234146.24221@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <1992Dec14.234146.24221@leland.Stanford.EDU> mrbill@leland.Stanford.EDU (William Bowen) writes:
- >I use an AMD 386DX40 and I am very pleased with it. It runs DR-DOS, Win 3.1
- >and OS/2 flawlessly and fast.
-
- Truly a nice CPU, it is.
-
- >Take a look in the December Byte. There's an article comparing various CPUs
- >including the AMD chip.
-
-
- >The benchmarks indicate that its performance is
- >comparable to the Intel 486DX33.
-
- This is rubbish. I have one of each, and they are definitely NOT
- "comparable", unless you mean "same order of magnitude". The 486 DX 33 is
- about 2 times faster, almost always 1.5x faster on anything you want to run.
-
- >If you want to add a math coprocessor,
- >it's much cheaper to buy a '387 from Cyrix, IIT or ULSI (~ $90{).
-
- Yes, but you still do not get the benefits of 1-clock instructions that
- the 486 was designed for.
-
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