> > > I wrote: > > > Does anyone know how fast is a PIII, say 500MHz? > > How does it compare to PII or Celeron? > > http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,391810,00.html > > says it's only 8% faster than PII at same clock speed when > running business apps on Windows. > If anyone has Linux benchmarks, post 'em!
The only difference between a PII and a PIII at the same clock speed that I know of are the extra `SSE' instructions that are mainly useful for 3D stuff and maybe some other floating point intensive software. As far as I know, there are currently no compilers for linux that actually use these instructions, so I would expect the difference is about 0%. HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
