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From: ggraef@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (gerald graef)
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Subject: Re: Whis is fastest 386/33 or 486/25 ?
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Date: 10 Jul 90 21:54:14 GMT
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In article <1990Jul5.205440.23370@ecn.purdue.edu> jmoore@cidmac.ecn.purdue.edu (James D Moore) writes:
>
>I was asked to find out some information for a professor here at
>the university. A project we are doing requires nothing more than
>as much speed as possible from the processor. I realize that this
>is related to disk acess and such but the basic question I need an
>answer for is "Which is faster a 386/33mhz or a 486/25mhz?"
>
>Thanks!!
>
>Jim Moore
>
There is always substantial deviation between manufacturers, but given
equivalent motherboards (say, with external caches etc.) the fastest
80x86 is the 33mhz 486, followed by the 25mhz 486 and then the 33-386's.
A 486 will run in the range of 2 times faster than an equivalent speed
386.


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