Pro/ENGINEER Performance of High End x86 CPUs (Athlon vs P3)
by Anand Shimpi & Dan Kroushl on January 3, 2000 3:38 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
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GRAPHICS TOTAL |
Wireframe Redraws (160 FRONT-DEF) |
Shaded Mouse Spins (2100 positions) |
Shaded Redraws (400 FRONT-DEF) |
Mouse Zooms (360) |
Explode Translations |
Screen Updates |
|
|
Sorted by Graphics Score |
sec |
sec |
sec |
sec |
sec |
sec |
sec |
|
Intel Pentium III 800E |
112 |
25 |
18 |
13 |
15 |
20 |
21 |
|
Kryotech SuperG Athlon 1GHz |
113 |
25 |
18 |
16 |
15 |
20 |
19 |
|
Intel Pentium III 700E |
121 |
28 |
17 |
15 |
15 |
22 |
24 |
|
AMD Athlon 800 |
123 |
28 |
19 |
17 |
16 |
22 |
21 |
|
AMD Athlon 700 |
132 |
31 |
19 |
17 |
17 |
24 |
24 |
|
Intel Pentium III 600E |
133 |
32 |
17 |
15 |
16 |
26 |
27 |
|
AMD Athlon 600 |
142 |
35 |
19 |
18 |
16 |
27 |
27 |
|
Intel Pentium III 500E |
150 |
37 |
19 |
17 |
15 |
30 |
32 |
|
AMD Athlon 500 |
161 |
40 |
21 |
19 |
17 |
32 |
32 |
|
Intel Pentium III 500 |
174 |
47 |
19 |
18 |
15 |
36 |
39 |
|
Intel Celeron 500 |
201 |
53 |
24 |
24 |
20 |
39 |
41 |
Here is the shocker. At similar clock speeds, the Pentium III E outperformed the Athlon by about 10% in the graphics tests. Because of this, the 800MHz Pentium III managed to take the lead over the 1GHz Athlon. While Intel's SSE instructions/SIMD FP optimizations could be at work here the fact that the regular Pentium III 500 is beaten by AMD's Athlon 500 indicates that the faster L2 cache and wider L2 cache bus of the Pentium III E is providing for a large amount of the performance advantage held by the CPU.
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dac7nco - Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - link
My phone is faster than a DEC Alpha; greetings from the future!