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AMDK6 and P-II



On Mon, May 31, 1999 at 11:31:37AM +0530, Thus spoke Rajiv Dhinakaran :

 --> The AMD K6 is an excellent processor for Linux, and gives P-II class
 --> performance at least in linux.  

As for compatibility, AMD K6-2 is a pin-for-pin replacement
to Pentium chips on socket 7, ( mother boards should have
split voltage capability to use AMD K6). AMD K6-2 goes in to a socket 7
and almost gives the performance of a P-II of the same clock 
speed.  Except if you are only doing floating point operations,
P-II is about 30 % better. 

here are some benchmarks

jagadish

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P-II, 350 MHz running RH 5.2 
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BYTEmark* Native Mode Benchmark ver. 2 (10/95)
Index-split by Andrew D. Balsa (11/97)
Linux/Unix* port by Uwe F. Mayer (12/96,11/97)

TEST                : Iterations/sec.  : Old Index   : New Index
                    :                  : Pentium 90* : AMD K6/233*
- --------------------:------------------:-------------:------------
NUMERIC SORT        :          152.42  :       3.91  :       1.28
STRING SORT         :          13.889  :       6.21  :       0.96
BITFIELD            :      4.5155e+07  :       7.75  :       1.62
FP EMULATION        :          9.0364  :       4.34  :       1.00
FOURIER             :          2585.9  :       2.94  :       1.65
ASSIGNMENT          :          2.0374  :       7.75  :       2.01
IDEA                :           315.4  :       4.82  :       1.43
HUFFMAN             :          150.73  :       4.18  :       1.33
NEURAL NET          :          3.1117  :       5.00  :       2.10
LU DECOMPOSITION    :           98.65  :       5.11  :       3.69
==========================ORIGINAL BYTEMARK RESULTS==========================
INTEGER INDEX       : 5.362
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 4.220
Baseline (MSDOS*)   : Pentium* 90, 256 KB L2-cache, Watcom* compiler 10.0
==============================LINUX DATA BELOW===============================
C compiler          : gcc version 2.7.2.3
libc                : libc.so.5.4.38
MEMORY INDEX        : 1.462
INTEGER INDEX       : 1.252
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 2.340
Baseline (LINUX)    : AMD K6/233*, 512 KB L2-cache, gcc 2.7.2.3, libc-5.4.38
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AMD K6-2, 330 MHz 
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BYTEmark* Native Mode Benchmark ver. 2 (10/95)
Index-split by Andrew D. Balsa (11/97)
Linux/Unix* port by Uwe F. Mayer (12/96,11/97)

TEST                : Iterations/sec.  : Old Index   : New Index
                    :                  : Pentium 90* : AMD K6/233*
- --------------------:------------------:-------------:------------
NUMERIC SORT        :             164  :       4.21  :       1.38
STRING SORT         :          21.101  :       9.43  :       1.46
BITFIELD            :       2.712e+07  :       4.65  :       0.97
FP EMULATION        :          10.392  :       4.99  :       1.15
FOURIER             :          2450.9  :       2.79  :       1.57
ASSIGNMENT          :          1.8833  :       7.17  :       1.86
IDEA                :          329.33  :       5.04  :       1.50
HUFFMAN             :          150.83  :       4.18  :       1.34
NEURAL NET          :          1.9677  :       3.16  :       1.33
LU DECOMPOSITION    :           43.93  :       2.28  :       1.64
==========================ORIGINAL BYTEMARK RESULTS==========================
INTEGER INDEX       : 5.428
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 2.717
Baseline (MSDOS*)   : Pentium* 90, 256 KB L2-cache, Watcom* compiler 10.0
==============================LINUX DATA BELOW===============================
C compiler          : gcc version 2.7.2.3
libc                : unknown version
MEMORY INDEX        : 1.381
INTEGER INDEX       : 1.335
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 1.507
Baseline (LINUX)    : AMD K6/233*, 512 KB L2-cache, gcc 2.7.2.3, libc-5.4.38
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