wrote:Pentium MMX is competitive with Pentium II as well.
this is interesting:
K6-3 is FASTER than pmmx,
pmmx is COMPARABLE against pentium2,
however in my benchmarks, k6-3 got SMASHED by celeronA.
I'm not surprised. A Celeron A with full CPU rate L2 cache on the die would routinely crush a Deschutes with half CPU rate L2 cache in the SECC package, except for benchmarks that are highly sensitive to cache size.
All hail the Great Capacitor Brand Finder
Pentium ii was much faster than pentium mmx in 3d but you needed fastvid to allow fast access to video memory in dos. Quake should be benchmarked with fastvid.
I was toying around with a socket 7 system last summer. I tried a couple of games, but I didn't really feel like these deserved a new thread, so hopefully someone finds these interesting!
System was:
ASUS i430tx based motherboard
Pentium 133, K5 PR133, Cyrix MII PR300 (66MHz x 3.5), K6-III+ 400 (6 x 66)
64MB RAM
Matrox Millennium II
3Dfx Voodoo1
Sound Blaster 16
Windows 95
Quake (Software Rendering, 320x200)
Demo 1:
Pentium 133 : 36.3 fps
K5 PR133 : 26 fps
MII PR300 : 41.2 fps
K6-III+ 400 : 71.1 fps
Demo 2:
Pentium 133 : 37.5 fps
K5 PR133 : 27 fps
MII PR300 : 42.1 fps
K6-III+ 400 : 73.3 fps
GLQuake 640x480
Demo 1:
Pentium 133 : 36 fps
K5 PR133 : 29.3 fps
MII PR300 : 35.1 fps
K6-III+ 400 : 37.6 fps
Demo 2:
Pentium 133 : 36.7 fps
K5 PR133 : 25.4 fps
MII PR300 : 35.8 fps
K6-III+ 400 : 37.1 fps
Forsaken (3D Accelerated, 640x480)
Pentium 133 : 44.34 fps
K5 PR133 : 38.64 fps
MII PR300 : 54.44 fps
K6-III+ 400 : 62.43 fps
Looks like the Pentium is around 1.5+ times faster in Quake(swmode). I used to run a SS7 board for fun where I would choose a processor depending on my mood. The K5 was my favorite, then the P233MMX and lastly the K6-2. All of them ran overclocked(ram at 95/110Mhz depending on the cpu). The K6-2(~500Mhz) was pretty underwhelming except for integer stuff.
"Back in the day"(1998) the K6-2 was, rightfully, a poor man's processor and 3DNow never manifested its supposed potential(same with SSE).
Is there a software package where 3DNow was not an afterthought?
