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- From: tim@apple.com (Tim Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: 486 vs. Mac Benchmarks
- Message-ID: <tim-181292090140@129.38.222.43>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 15:03:50 GMT
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- In article <BzFoLA.LB1@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, rvenkate@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu
- (Ravikuma Venkateswar) wrote:
-
- > But wasn't the 68040-33 clock doubled? (i.e. didn't it run internally
- > at 66 MHz) Which would mean that the 68040-33 should be compared to the
- > 80486DX2-66 . Which means that the Intel processor is still faster at the
- > same clock speed.
-
- No, the 68040 is not "clock doubled", at least in the way that is meant
- with the 486DX2. In going from the 68030 to the 68040, the input clock
- changed from a 2x clock to a 1x clock, but the bus still runs at the same
- speed as the processor.
-
- -- Tim Olson
- Apple Computer Inc. / Somerset
- (tim@apple.com)
-