120000 cycles on dosbox is 120 MIPS. According to Wikipedia, the first Athlon (at 1200 MHz) is over 3500 MIPS (depends on the instruction mix). Again, according to Wikipedia, the first Pentium was able to reach 126 MIPS in some benchmarks at 75 MHz.

It's not comparable because on a real CPU an instruction uses several
(up to multiples of 1000) cycles, and real CPUs have pipelines and stuff.

12k DOSBox cycles is about equivalent to a ???, 120k between a ??? & ???.

For those who believe, yes.

Benchmark and game results bear it out.

I compared my
Intel core 2 dou cpu/XP home w/ 4 gig ram
to my
AMD Phenom II X4 940 / XP home w/4 gig ram

AMD wins hands down with super crisp and FASTER mouse and display response.

Speed is what we need this AMD is better for DOSBox.

Oh ya I forgot to mention the AMD machine has a cheapo video card(Geforce 5500) and the Intel machine has a medium to high end video card. (Geforce 8400)

That's a high end video card?

Benchmark and game results bear it out.

They only cover a tiny fraction of the instruction sets usually.
Compare fpu-only and integer-only and IO-only benchmarks and have fun.

Long ago gone over, FPU performance doesn't match up with integer in DOSBox, runs way faster, same goes for memory bandwidth. Integer is what matters for the majority of DOS games, it's the overriding "tiny fraction."

A lot games use the fpu, and the fpu was just an example. Take any other highly
discrepant pair of instructions at wish, or post those "i have nice numbers" as always
for whatever reason.

Not for most 8086, 286, 386, early 486 era games, the primary benefactors of the "whatever reason" of setting at a speed to run properly. The "i have nice numbers" are noted for what they are, an average, like AMD's old PR rating. It's useful regardless that you dislike it.

Yeah but it's not useful that cycles=300==8086 but that for "games that were
programmed for fixed 8086 speed you should start at 300 cycles and change
those up or down until it's correct" which is completely different.

Last time stop posting these numbers, i'll remove all such posts without further notice.

Right, having people be completely clueless is better than on target for most things and in the ballpark otherwise, and wow, breathtaking stance. You won't have to remove posts, your behavior is enough to keep me away.

Why let them clueless? I'm against throwing out wrong information knowingly,
and if you actually read the first few postings you may or may know what i mean.
Otherwise yeah, just the ballpark.