Your Centris 650 has a 16MHz I/O bus and no L2 cache.
compair that with a 486 mother board I have laying about
 64-256K L2 and I/O bus speed of 16 to 50MHz.


On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 2:10 AM, Vincent BARAT
<mailto:Vincent.Barat@alcatel.fr> wrote:
> Yesterday, I tried to run the Byte Unix Benchmark on my Centris 650
> (NetBSD 1.3, 68040 30 MHz, slow SCSI drive, 24 Mo).
> 
> The score I obtained was ... 1.0 ... which corresponds to
> the score of a 360 SX 33 MHz under Linux :-( !
> 
> Even if raw CPU speed is better on my Mac (at least) the difference
> is not really significant (an average of 1.2 vs 1.0 for the 386 Linux
box).
> 
> How do you explain that a 68040 30 MHz is only slightly quicker
> than a 386 33 MHz ?
> 
> By the way, I saw the results for a NextStep box with a 68040 (apparently
> running at 25 MHz) and they were very close to those obtained on my
> machine
> (except for disk io of course). As you would expect it, my Mac was
slightly
> faster in raw CPU (maybe by a factor of 30 / 25 ;-) !).
> 
> ... polemic mode on ...
> 
> So, my question is, is Linux really quicker than NetBSD or are Intel
> processors really quicker than Motorola's ones ?
> 
> ... polemic mode off ...
> 
> 

 

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