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From: LeoG
Date: 05 Feb 2002
Time: 15:11:28 -0500
Remote Name: 65.194.128.215
So my machine finally arrived yesterday evening and I took a day's vacation from work to play with it today ! One of the first things that I wanted to do was run detailed benchmarks to see if the negative publicity about the performance of the Transmeta TM5800 was true - Good news!, it is not true. Some reports suggest that it runs slower than half its rated 800MHz. See the detailed benchmark comparison graphs in the attachment below, which show that it runs at about as fast as an equivalent PIII 700MHz portable.
Study the data yourselves, but a couple of first observations:
* Battery versus Mains operation does not seem to make much difference.
* Do upgrade to the latest ATI graphics drivers supplied with the machine on a CD - it makes a big difference to especially 3D performance.
* Compared to the Sony Vaio Crusoe 600MHz machine, the FujP 800MHz is 30% faster in terms of raw processor performance (MFLOPS); but 50% faster overall (PassMark rating) due to faster disk, memory, graphics etc.
* The Transmeta processor seems to do extremely well in addition and subtraction (better than equivalent PIII's, but less well on multiplication and division). Here is the link to the graphs (the gif is 270K, so allow a few minutes to download fully):
(for reference this machine is P-2040 with 256MB RAM, running Windows XP. Benchmark software is Passmark Performance Test from http://www.passmark.com/ .)
