Re: AMDK6 and P-II

[Rajiv Dhinakaran <dhinakaran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good statistics.  But as far as an OS like Linux (Or Windows for that
matter) is concerned, only integer operations count and floating point
operations are nowhere in the picture.  (Infact almost al OS's run
perfectly on 386's and 486SX's which have absolutely no floating point
capabilities whatsoever.)

For floating point operations, 3D transforms and Scientific number
crunching, the P-II, P-III, Celeron and Pentium Pro are in a class of their
own.

At 12:07 PM 5/31/99 +0530, you wrote:
>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. 


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