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- From: S_JUFFA@iravcl.ira.uka.de (|S| Norbert Juffa)
- Subject: Re: Help - Cyrix processors, anyone know for sure?
- In-Reply-To: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM's message of 19 Aug 92 13: 25:42 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:31:42 GMT
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- In <1992Aug19.132542.2667@crd.ge.com> davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM writes:
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- > In article <16rb6gINNt38@iraul1.ira.uka.de>, S_JUFFA@iravcl.ira.uka.de (|S| Norbert Juffa) writes:
- >
- > | The cache is definitely the main source of the 486DLC's performance
- > | gain over the 80386. This can be easily deduced from the performance
- > | of Intel's RapidCAD chip which is basically a 486 without the cache
- > | and with a 386 pin out. While the RapidCAD offers roughly twice the
- > | floating point performance of the Intel 387DX, my benchmarks showed
- > | it to be at most 25% faster than the 80386. Typical performance gain
- > | for integer applications is more like 15% though. This definitely
- >
- > Whoa! Is this chip OEM only or available to real people. I have a app
- > running on old (1986) 386-16s with 287 math chips. If the rapidCAD chip
- > is a drop in I could probably get an order of magnitude boost in the FP
- > performance.
- >
- > Motherboard upgrade is not available for this application.
- >
- As far as I know, the RapidCAD isn't even sold as an OEM product. It is
- primarily intended to be used by end users for upgrade purposes. Intel
- advertises it as the ultimate coprocessor. It has been available for
- about two month now. I have bought one myself about two weeks ago. It
- was about US$320 (480 deutschmarks). The RapidCAD is actually a two
- piece set. One chip, RapidCAD-1, contains the integrated CPU+FPU and
- goes into the 386 socket, the other chip, RapidCAD-2 contains only
- some logic required for compatiblity with the 386/387 combination. The
- set includes a chip extractor to remove the 386 and an antistatic storage
- box for the removed 386 CPU. RapidCAD can run at speeds of up to 33 MHz.
- You might even try to push it to 40 MHz, if you are adventurous, although
- I wouldn't recommend it. This thing gets as hot as a true 486, so I have
- added an extra fan blowing directly at the CPU.
-
-
- > --
- > bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- > I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
-
-
- Norbert
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