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A Guide to Building a PC with an AMD Athlon™ Processor 22914B/0—September 1999
SPECfp
Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) SPECfp_base95 is a component of
the CFP95 suite, an industry standard for measuring and comparing a processor’s
floating performance. SPEC benchmarks are typically used by members of the
scientific and technical communities to measure the performance of high-end
computer systems.
Figure 4. SPECfp Benchmark Results
Benchmark System Configuration. Diamond 770 using nVidia TNT2 Ultra 150MHz core, 183MHz memory
clock 32MB, Western Digital Expert 41800, single PC100 128MB DIMM, SoundBlaster Live (Value)
Audio, Linksys HPN100 Home Ethernet card, Toshiba 6X DVD SD-M1212, Dual Boot Windows® 98
& Windows NT® 4.0 using Norton System Commander. Windows NT 4.0 is installed with SP4, Win-
dows 98 with DX 6.1A build 2150, and nVidia TNT2 Ultra Driver Rev 1.81 under Windows 98 and
Windows NT.
AMD Athlon™ processor-based system: Reference Motherboard Rev. B*, BIOS Rev AFTB00-2, Bus
Mastering EIDE Driver v1.03, AGP miniport v4.41.
Pentium® III Xeon processor-based system (512K L2): Tyan Thunder X Motherboard, BIOS 1.02,
EIDE-BM Driver 5/11/98, AGP miniport 5/11/98.
*This motherboard is not commercially available at this time.
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Pentium® III Xeon 550
AMD Athlon 550
AMD Athlon 600
AMD Athlon™ 650
SPECfp_base95
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