VIA C3

[GerritKühn]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:10:49AM -0400, Damian Gerow wrote:

> > Well, all I can say is, that I bought it as "Ezra" and there is "Ezra"
> > printed on it. FreeBSD identifies it as Samuel2, though.

> And I bought my Ezra as a Nehemiah.

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> So maybe they do have a way to distinguish the chips.  Dunno -- at the very
> least, it's not marketed.  And the Samuel2 is definitely not an Ezra.

Thanks for the clarification. I'm almost sure that there was something
with "ezra" printed right on the cpu, but I can't remember for sure;
so maybe you're right with the assumption that it's in fact a Samuel2.

> FWIW, the best way I've seen to figure out which chip you're using (at least
> between Ezra/Ezra-T and Nehemiah) is to look at the clocking -- Ezra/Ezra-T
> seems to be 100*10.0, whereas Nehemiah seems to be 133*7.5.

Back to the performance-discussion between cputype 586/mmx and k6-3
optimization: do you have a suggestion how to benchmark it?


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