Reply 20 of 23, by amadeus777999
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The 486 has lots of potential which overclocking and late era boards can unleash.
The Pentium's efficiency can't be denied though and the 486s writing was on the wall as soon as '93.
Few days ago I tested a DX60(Overclocked DX50 on a LS486E@60mhz fsb(ram fastest settings/cache one notch below at 3-2-3) against a P60(standard IntelChipset + rather "slow" corporate bios/no tweaks) and latter reaches performance levels relative to former of...
130% in Doom ShareWare("486@78")
132% in 3DBench2("486@79")
220% in Blood("486@132")
Admitted, the much touted "DX4-100 boost" would be around 160%+(early Pentiums were always compared to DX4s) but this seems to mostly help with "antique" software.
Blood and Quake for example, easily annihilate the 486's clock advantage by fine tuning key-routines for the new architecture.
Also a clock-ratio of cpu2ram at 3:1 for the 486 seems to be appropriate as I could not get a meaty speedup at a 1:1 ratio between fsb and core on a "high end" board(odd cases aside).
Above stated should be more closely inspected of course as the small array of tests could strongly skew the overall picture.