Which is Faster? Celeron 600MHz vs K6-2 550

[dflynchimp]

lol, aren't we 10 years late discussing this?

sure does bring back old memories tho...my first computer ran made the bottom of that list (pentium 100MHz)...

 

[ILikeTech]

Wow... debating the original pentium processor wars are we? From what I remember, the K62 was older technology meant to compete with the earlier pentiums. That lack of onchip L2 cache only showed it's age. I'd owned a K62 500, and I remember it being one hellofva workhorse in it's day.

 

[Arkaign]

Originally posted by: dflynchimp
lol, aren't we 10 years late discussing this?

sure does bring back old memories tho...my first computer ran made the bottom of that list (pentium 100MHz)...

You kids 😉 My first computer was about 1mhz or so I think (TRS-80). After that, stuff like Vic-20, Atari 800, Apple II, Commodore 64, Atari ST (glorious!), Amiga 500, and so on.

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: Arkaign
You kids 😉 My first computer was about 1mhz or so I think (TRS-80). After that, stuff like Vic-20, Atari 800, Apple II, Commodore 64, Atari ST (glorious!), Amiga 500, and so on.

Haha, my first computer was a TRS-80, too. They had a much faster processor than you remember, though. They had a Zilog Z80 @ 1.77 Ghz. I was on about my 5th computer, when Intel announced the Pentium.😀

 

[HannibalX]

I had a K6-2 450 MHz and a Celeron 433 Mhz around the same time. For web surfing and office apps the AMD was quicker... anything video related and the Celeron won hands down.

 

[SlowSpyder]

I *thought* the K6-2+ and the K6-3's were faster then the Celerons at everything but gaming? It's been a while, I could be wrong.

 

[Arkaign]

Originally posted by: Pale Rider
I had a K6-2 450 MHz and a Celeron 433 Mhz around the same time. For web surfing and office apps the AMD was quicker... anything video related and the Celeron won hands down.

Maybe your Celeron system had a crappy hard drive or something, because with equal memory/drive setup, the Celeron is a lot faster in everything, clock for clock, even on the old mendocino core. The Coppermine just demolishes the K6.

 

[Arkaign]

Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
I *thought* the K6-2+ and the K6-3's were faster then the Celerons at everything but gaming? It's been a while, I could be wrong.

Go read the roundup, the original Celeron 400mhz is notably faster than the K6 @ 450/500mhz at nearly everything (gaming/mp3 encoding/rar compression/3dmark/etc), and the Coppermine IS a LOT faster at everything, sometimes by twice as much.