Liam Bedford wrote:
>>On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 02:59:06PM +0000, Gavin McCullagh mentioned:
>>>>>* out of interest, anyone have ideas of it's performance
>>>>> It seems to be about 20% slower than a celeron of the same clock speed.
>>The FPU is about 40% slower, at a guess. But, we've boxes with M3's in
>>them, running at 18 watts, so for low power/no fan stuff, they rock. But
>>in a desktop...I'm not sure. They cash saving isn't that great.
>>>>> IIRC the FPU runs at half speed, so it's quite slow if you want that. But
> for general processing, by all accounts it's fine.
FPU runs at full speed, starting @ Samuel II.
Padraig.
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