Re: OT Athlon CPUs

["Andrew Kilgore" <amkilgore@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

As far as I know the Athlon 3200 runs at a frequency of 2.2GHz.
The "speed" of a CPU is mainly determined by 2 factors: clock
frequency and
instruction set efficiency.
As far as I understand it, AMD have made certain instructions more
efficient
(through the use of pipelining etc.). This means that an instruction which
may take 5 clock cycles on an Intel CPU, may only take 3 clock cycles on an
AMD.

Therefore, you're not really comparing like with like if you just compare
clock speeds.
Thus why AMD have cleverly done a Cyrix.

Thanks,
Andy.

----- Original Message -----
From: "s369180" <mail@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 6:52 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] OT Athlon CPUs


> Hi,
>
> Sorry to be OT. I'm thinking of upgrading my cpu. I think AMD
> have "done a cyrix". I think an athlon 3200 does not run at
3.2ghz
> but at a speed equivalent to a 3.2ghz intel. Am i right? How do i
> find out the real frequency of the chip? Is the real frequency
> important? Is it all just marketing? Any recommendations? Thanks.
>
>
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