Re: NEC-LIST: speed comparison between PC and Mac

"Lee, Sung-Shin" wrote:
>
> Dear all list-members
>
> Currently, I use a IBM-compatible PC to analyze EM problems.
>
> My compiling environments are as follows.
> Pentium-III processor with 866 MHz
> 1 GB RAM
> Compaq Visual Fortran 6.1 with INTEL's Math Kernel Library
>
> Is there any benifit (especially, for speed) if I use Macintosh with
> G4 processor. Please, comment any if you are using Macintosh with
> NEC.

It depends :)

We have an FDTD code running on K7 600 MHz and G3 400 MHz processors with
same execution time, the G4 450 MHz being about 25 % faster.

It really also depends on the board etc. Try both and compare.

juergem
Received on Mon Nov 20 2000 - 04:49:59 EST