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- From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: AMD rubbish????
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- Message-ID: <Jim_Johnson.0bta@abcd.Houghton.MI.US>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 23:10:32 EST
- Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch
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- In a message dated Fri 18 Dec 92 10:33, Reza@magellan.ae.utexas.edu (alirez
- wrote:
- >
- >What 486sx has the same performance as a 386-40? My gut feeling is that
- >a 486-sx-25 is about even with a 386-40.
-
- R> Right you are! In the December 92 issue of Byte magazine there is an
- R> article on head to head comparisons between various CPU's including
- R> the Intel 486SX/25 and the AMD 386/40. In virtually all the
- R> benchmarks,
- R> the AMD was right at or just a hair below the performance level of a
- R> 486SX/25. I would imagine the 486SX/33 would be considerably faster
- R> than the AMD because of the faster clock rate.
-
- If you read the article carefully, you might notice that with a "typical"
- full mix of applications, the AMD 386/40 is only a fraction slower than a
- 486DX-33 system.
-
- I work for an OEM clone manufacturer. We have found that unless you are
- running applications that are CPU intensive such as CAD or very complex
- number crunching the AMD 386/40 is a better value than the 486DX-33. This
- is due to DMA speed (40MHz vs. 25MHz or 33MHz). Database type software in
- particular is assisted by the 40Mhz clock speed. On the otherhand the
- 486DX-50MHz blows away the competition. We sell 486SX systems, but only if
- the customer insists on them. So far as we are concerned, this is a
- marketing scheme to rip off the customer.
-
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