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A performance-efficiency comparison - from 100MHz to 3.06GHz

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First post, by melbar

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Some time ago i was searching some infos to the power consumption of the older CPU's, we all like to install in our retro builds from the past.
I would like to share here these results...

As database, i have taken the results from tomshardware's "Benchmark Marathon: 65 CPUs from 100 MHz to 3066 MHz"

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/benchmark … rathon,590.html

I really like this old benchmark 'marathon' cause it also compares older models with newer ones... 😀

I have placed them into groups, for example all Pentium III together or all AthlonXP's together.
The relevant benchmarks, i have selected:

  • - Quake 3 Arena (1024x768 resolution)
    - 3DMark 2001
    - Unreal Tournament 2003 (1024x768 resolution)
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#1 K6-2/500, #2 Athlon1200, #3 Celeron1000A, #4 A64-3700, #5 P4HT-3200, #6 P4-2800, #7 Am486DX2-66

Reply 1 of 8, by melbar

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For everybody who may prefer also some excel sheet view's, here also some pic's with the results...

Quake 3 Arena - results

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#1 K6-2/500, #2 Athlon1200, #3 Celeron1000A, #4 A64-3700, #5 P4HT-3200, #6 P4-2800, #7 Am486DX2-66

Reply 2 of 8, by melbar

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3D Mark 2001 - results

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#1 K6-2/500, #2 Athlon1200, #3 Celeron1000A, #4 A64-3700, #5 P4HT-3200, #6 P4-2800, #7 Am486DX2-66

Reply 3 of 8, by melbar

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Unreal Tournament 2003 - results

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#1 K6-2/500, #2 Athlon1200, #3 Celeron1000A, #4 A64-3700, #5 P4HT-3200, #6 P4-2800, #7 Am486DX2-66

Reply 4 of 8, by melbar

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Quake 3 Arena - Fps / Watt

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Last edited by melbar on 2017-09-03, 13:16. Edited 1 time in total.

#1 K6-2/500, #2 Athlon1200, #3 Celeron1000A, #4 A64-3700, #5 P4HT-3200, #6 P4-2800, #7 Am486DX2-66

Reply 5 of 8, by melbar

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3D Mark 2001 - Score / Watt

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Last edited by melbar on 2017-09-03, 13:19. Edited 1 time in total.

#1 K6-2/500, #2 Athlon1200, #3 Celeron1000A, #4 A64-3700, #5 P4HT-3200, #6 P4-2800, #7 Am486DX2-66

Reply 6 of 8, by melbar

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Unreal Tournament 2003 - Fps / Watt

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#1 K6-2/500, #2 Athlon1200, #3 Celeron1000A, #4 A64-3700, #5 P4HT-3200, #6 P4-2800, #7 Am486DX2-66

Reply 7 of 8, by agent_x007

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Awesome stuff, job well done 😀
But please use "0" as base on your graphs (at least, the pure FPS ones).

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Reply 8 of 8, by Scali

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Interesting... I would have expected the PIII and Athlon to be more or less evenly matched, and the P4 to be less efficient.
But it looks like the PIII is in a class of its own in terms of efficiency, and the P4 Northwood is very close to the most efficient Athlons. It's only the Willamette that's very inefficient.

http://scalibq.wordpress.com/just-keeping-it- … ro-programming/

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