Will Sempron 754 run with FreeBSD i386?

Olaf van der Spek olafvdspek at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 09:35:06 PDT 2005


On Apr 4, 2005 6:13 PM, Andrew P. <infofarmer at mail.ru> wrote:
> > Are you sure?
> > The s754 versions have an on die memory controller and a K8 core
> > (although with disabled 64-bit mode), which should make it
> > significantly faster then the K7 based Sempron on sA.
> 
> Yeah, it appears I got a wrong idea from some poor
> article. As a matter of fact, Sempron/sA is based
> on Barton core, while Sempron/s754 is a K8 sister.
> The latter has an on-chip memory controller and
> SSE2 instruction set supported. They are pretty
> same in all other aspects though, and I still
> suppose the perfomance margin is negligible.

Why do you expect so much performance to be lost compared to the Athlon 64 s754?
The Athlon 64 s754 is significantly faster than the Athlon XP.


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