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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: SKIP
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.140855.4406@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 14:08:55 +1100
- References: <1993Jan9.172511.7360@infonode.ingr.com>
- Organization: The University of Melbourne
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- In article <1993Jan9.172511.7360@infonode.ingr.com>, bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:
- >
- > I was thinking about upgrading my 386DX/33 with a cheap 486DX/33
- > motherboard. The two things I wanted to go faster were games
- > (had to turn off clouds in Comanche Maximum Overkill) and
- > JPEG. So I ran some tests on a friend's Taiwanese 486DX/33
- > of unknown chipset:
- >
- > 386 - Swan 386DX/33, Micronics MB with either 32 or 64K cache (I'm ashamed
- > to admit I'm not sure which, salesman said 32K, magazine review said
- > 64K, manual says both are possible), Intel cache controller,
- > 8MB ram, Pheonix bios
- >
- > 486 - noname 486DX/33, Taiwanese MB of unknown chipset, 256K external cache,
- > 16MB ram, AMI bios
- >
- > Tests:
- >
- > Tests were run on bare dos 5.0 with minimal stuff in config files:
- >
- > I used the Independent JPEG Group vesion4 jpeg code, compiled with
- > the Intel 386/486 C Codebuilder (32bit extended dos) compiler.
- > The jpeg stuff is not disk bound, and besides, both systems have
- > comparatively fast IDE drives. Timing was done with a stopwatch.
- > lake2.gif is 630x422x256.
- >
- > cjpeg -Q 80 lake2.gif:
- >
- > 386: 15.0 sec
- > 486: 29.7 sec
- Something I found recently was that some of the chipset setup
- programs initialise memory waitstates and clock rates on the
- conservative side of things when using the "QUICK" setup or
- "SET DEFAULTS". In my 386DX 33MHz machine the AMI bios setup
- could be modified to go much faster provided the correct RAM
- chips and bus hardware is used. Maybe the two machines
- your comparing could be optimised? Also I noticed that some
- assembler instructions run slowerrr or a 386 than a 286 ?"{
- - could this be happening on you particular code for the 486??
-
- good luck , mark harrison
- >
- > djpeg lake2.jpg:
- >
- > 386: 23.3 sec
- > 486: 47.3 sec
- >
- > The other benchmark results were more reasonable, but these
- > were canned benchmarks, not real-world tests.
- >
- > Norton 4.0 cpu index:
- >
- > 386: 42.7
- > 486: 54.2
- >
- > Norton 5.0 cpu index:
- >
- > 386: 35.4
- > 486: 72.1
- >
- > Does anyone have a clue as to why the 486 was twice as slow on the jpeg
- > stuff? I know the Intel cache controller on my 386 uses posted writes for
- > 0ws writes 100% of the time, and the 486's external cache may be
- > write-through, but shouldn't the internal writeback cache in the 486 buffer
- > the effects of this, if the 486's external cache is indeed write-through.
- >
- > ------------
- > Bailey Brown "Above all else, confusion reigns."
- > Intergraph Corporation
- > bbrown@casca.b11.ingr.com Procol Harum
-