Your measurement methodology needs help? The i5 is capable of far more work than the K6-2-350. What you are doing is comparing a bus to a passenger car and stating that they both are effective at carrying one person, and therefore the bus has no additional value.
When running a simple single-threaded workload sure, the i5 might not look like it's worth the extra silicon. Now go run 8 or 16 or 32 copies of the same workload in parallel, and tell me how that goes for the K6-2. Modern chips are designed for very different things than chips from 20+ years ago, so the comparison is kind of meaningless. You're effectively measuring the clock speed, not what the chip is capable of. And this isn't a surprise, but a 10x faster clock on a single threaded benchmark results in 10x performance. While completely ignoring the rest of the chip. We don't benchmark buses against passenger cars. On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 12:33 PM Bret Johnson <bretj...@juno.com> wrote: > >> Even though a 350 MHz K6-2 is WAY faster than my 3.3 GHz i5? And > >> again, I know it doesn't make any sense, but it's still true. > >> > >> As far as I can tell, the Emperor has no Clothes. > > > > I'm confused by this. You are claiming that a 350 Mhz K6-2 is "WAY" > faster than a 3.3 GHz i5? In what respect? > > My K6-2-350 runs about 15 times faster than a 33 MHz 386, while my 3.3 GHz > i5 runs only about 10 times faster, in both cases with the caches enabled. > What do you not understand? > > You can try to claim that the SLOWDOWN test I performed is somehow > "tainted" or "unrealistic" or "unfair" or "sub-optimal" or something like > that, but the results are very real and are simply what they are. Also, as > already stated, the purpose of SLOWDOWN is not to be a benchmark but you > can indirectly use it as a benchmark. > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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