Anyone benchmark the Pentium Classic vs. a Pentium MMX??

[Mark Hahn]

: Has anyone (other than Intel) benchmarked these new chips against the
: standard ones?

Intel has, big surprise eh? for compute-bound code, the spec95 benchmarks,
the P5/200/mmx sees a 26% speedup on integer stuff. that's pretty
amazing, considering that the architectural changes to this processor
were not dramatic. in fact, even the 166mmx is faster than the old
200vanilla.

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[Chris]

Mark Hahn <ha...@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu> wrote in article
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> : Has anyone (other than Intel) benchmarked these new chips against the
> : standard ones?
>
> Intel has, big surprise eh? for compute-bound code, the spec95
benchmarks,
> the P5/200/mmx sees a 26% speedup on integer stuff. that's pretty
> amazing, considering that the architectural changes to this processor
> were not dramatic. in fact, even the 166mmx is faster than the old
> 200vanilla.
>
>

That's not very strange, since the P200 ran about 7% faster than the P166,
and the MMX processors tend to speed up things with 15%, because of better
architecture and double L1 cache.