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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: 486SL dropped, vendors test Cyrix
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.135936.23923@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 13:59:36 GMT
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- In article <C0E0zB.DwG@inews.Intel.COM>, rskinner@mipos2.intel.com (Rod Skinner) writes:
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- | I think that the PC Week article states that Intel is incorporating the
- | features into its main product lines. That would imply a stronger
- | commitment to these features than a product designed for portable
- | computing.
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- I read that as "most of the features." As far as I can tell from the
- two articles I've seen, these will still be 5v rather than 3.3v parts.
- Correct me if you have access to more info than I do.
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- |
- | Another interesting article comparing the Intel486 SX processor and the
- | Cyrix SLC is in InfoWorld December 21 page 48 "Reviews/Product
- | Comparisons: 25-MHz 486 Notebooks". InfoWorld seems to come to the
- | conclusion that the Intel486 SX processors are 35% to 40% FASTER than
- | the Cyrix parts. They use several examples but the most powerful is two
- | machines from TI: TravelMate 4000 WinSX/25 and the TravelMate WinSLC.
- | Both weigh 6 pounds with battery. Similarly configured machines yield
- | SYSmark92 results of 75.93 (Intel486 SX) and 47.23 (Cyrix). They
- | indicate that Cyrix system "posted a SYSmark92 close to 38 percent
- | slower than its 486SX/25 sibling."
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- That sounds reasonable. There is a significant performance penalty in
- the SLC due to smaller cache and lack of burst mode memory access. That
- was one of the reasons people wanted the SL, for better performance and
- lower power.
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