On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 14:19:11 +0200, Remco de Korte wrote:
>Philip Bartol wrote:
>> 
>> This is what I was told about my Evergreen 586 upgrade to my PC. A while ago I
>> rendered that simple glass that I made in sPatch... it took 7 hours to render
>> (setting max_trace_level high was part of the problem) but I was told then
>> that the AMD FPUs aren't that fast, however I never did hear back from that
>> person if they knew if it was all AMDs or just the older 586s....
>> 
>> This is something I need to look into. 
>
>I've just tried to find out about this. It's not easy to tell. AMD may be a bit
>slower on FPUs but is more efficient on memory management and other things so
>I've been told. The way I interpreted all information Intel is a few percent
>faster but it's also more expensive (about 15% over here - with 450Mhz).
>I opted for AMD but I don't think that was a 100% rational choice.

I have an AMD K6/233 at home.  When I bought it, it was the best bang for the
buck.  Yes, the FPU might be a little slower, but I'm betting it's not slow 
enough to make up for the extra 100 MHz or so I could afford by not buying 
Intel.

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