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- From: nolan@tssi.com (Michael Nolan)
- Subject: Re: 486 DX vs DX2: What's the difference ?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.200534.15561@tssi.com>
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- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:05:34 GMT
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- <REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
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- > So, what is the performance ratio? Rather depends on what you do. Most
- >PC systems are I/O bound anyways... no loss there. Some applications are
- >CPU bound... no loss there. So, unless your application is memory bound,
- >you might never know whether it was a DX or DX2! Benchmarks run anywhere
- >from 50% to 90% performance ratio of a DX2 to a DX...
-
- So, which is better: a 50Mhz DX2 or a 33Mhz DX? (Yeah, I know, it depends.)
- And this is NOT an academic question, these kinds of systems are showing up
- in the discount stores for roughly the same $$. What you are saying would
- seem to say that most of the time the 50Mhz DX2 will beat the 33Mhz DX,
- right?
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