Reply 20 of 39, by swaaye
On my MSI 4144 (SiS 497/496) mobo, the POD 83 doesn't get any L2 cache according to Cachechk even though L2 is enabled. Gimps it pretty severely. FPU still rocks the house though, especially when it's running at 40/100MHz. Integer performance and general "feel" are slower than a 160 MHz 5x86 however, courtesy of the L2 being broken when running the POD. At least until you play a 3D game, and then the FPU is just night and day better compared to any 486 chip.
POD has 32K L1, which is unlike any other Pentium until you get to the PMMX chips. That probably helps a lot.