On Mar 9, 2007, at 11:34 AM, Eric Anderson wrote:
I've got a VIA C3 Samuel myself, and it is fine for what it is,
which is a low-power clone of the Pentium-MMX in terms of
capabilities; the newer C3 Nehemiah is roughly comparable to a
P2, plus SSE and the extra AES/RNG crypto stuff. Look at dmesg or
cpuid and compare CPU features.
I'm pretty familiar with C3 and C7 chips.
I wouldn't compare performance of a CPU based on CPU features.
Of course not-- but then, I said "capabilities", not performance.
If you'd like to compare performance, choose a task or benchmark
which matters to you, and go from there. The comparisons I have done
suggests a 200MHz PPro will do a "make buildworld" faster than a
600MHz C3 Samuel, for example. YMMV, and I'd rather not debate this
matter further if you feel strongly about it...
--
-Chuck
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