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From: stolk@fwi.uva.nl (Jacco de Leeuw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Comparing CPU performance 386 / 486 -> use SI
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Date: 10 Apr 91 10:55:42 GMT
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    Greetings to you all,


I noticed quite a lot 386/486 comparisons on this newsgroup.
Well, what about a nice clean fact?

The latest version of norton sysinfo will rate a 386 at 33MHz with
64K cache and 80ns RAM with 35.4 (That's the machine I own)

A 486/33 (Dont know wether there is an external cache involved here)
is rated twice as fast: 70 or so.

Norton SI is quite representable for the average DOS application, so
I think the rates are quite relevant.

Of course disk io, and video speed and stuff is not included in this
test.


		Regards,

				Bram Stolk
				(cs student, University of Amsterdam)

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