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In <1992Dec18.112919.22234@fwi.uva.nl>, Stefan Sinnige writes:


>I read in our local newspaper about a new performance test, to compare
>Intel processors. The performance test is developed at Intel itself and is
>called the iCOMP (tm) Rating. The results are as follows:

>   i486 DX2 66 MHz               297
>   i486 DX  50 MHz               249
>   i486 DX2 50 MHz               231
>   i486 DX  33 MHz               166
>   i486 SX  33 MHz               136
>   i486 SX  25 MHz               100
>   i486 SX  20 MHz               78
>   i386 DX  33 MHz               68
>   i386 DX  25 MHz               49
>   i386 SL  25 MHz               41
>   i386 SX  25 MHZ               39

>The test is developed to show which processor is more powerfull. But they did
>not tell, how the test is performed, so I do not know what these numbers stand
>for.

>Can someone bring some light in the darkness .....

I can tell one thing about their benchmarks--they clearly use the co-processor.
Otherwise, the 486SX and 486DX numbers would be identical.  That's just come-
thing to keep in mid if you don't anticipate using any applications which
use the FPU.  For apps which don't use it (well over 90% don't), the SX is
every bit as fast as the DX.

Now I know where my new 486SX/33 stands.  Where is my old 386DX/20??   :-)


Tim Irvin
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