First post, by appiah4
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In trying to gauge the performance of a K5-PR166 vs a 6x86MX-PR233 in Quake I turned to Thandor.net's benchmarks.
According to Thandor.net a K5-PR166 on a 430VX motherboard scores 24.4 fps vs a 6x86MX-PR233 scoring 29.5 fps on an Aladdin V motherboard (+20,9%).
The motherboard apparently plays a significant role here because my K5-PR166 scores 25.4fps on demo3 on a 430TX motherboard (which means the 6x86MX is ınly +16,1% faster), so this is actually apples to oranges comparison.
The Ultimate 6x86 benchmark on VOGONS has a completely different outcome, with the K5-PR166 (117MHz) scoring 10.2 vs 6x86MX-PR233's (200MHz) 12.9fps (+26,5%) at 640x480 which is a significantly higher performance gap.
At the end of the day I am considering possibly upgrading a K5-PR166 to a 6x86MX-PR233 for the sole purpose of better Quake framerates (320x200 only) and I can't reliably verify how much faster the Cyrix chip would be.
If someone could chip in and share some experience or benchmark figures I'd be glad..
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