What is the Spectra 333? Will the spectra work on my system? Evergreen performance test Wintue 98 tests Conclusions

My Wintune results are just as impressive as the Evergreen performance tests.  Major improvements in performance were seen in every area, when upgrading to a Spectra 333 from an Intel 166 MHz Processor.  Check the table below for the raw data.

 

All  tests were done on my PB 640 Motherboard with Diamond Stealth II S220 video card running at 800x600@16bits/pixel, with 64 MB of RAM, Mr. BIOS upgrade and Windows 95 4.0.1111 B fat 32.

	Intel Pentium	Evergreen Spectra
Bus Speed/MHz	66/166	66/333
MMX	No	Yes and 3DNow
CPU Integer (MIPS)	431.3205	805.696
CPU Floating Point (MFLOPS)	190.1548	400.1945
Video(2D) (MPixels/s)	32.10956	40.40317
Direct3D (MPixels/s)	41.96649	55.85492
OpenGL (MPixels/s)	4.691871	5.555331
Memory (MB/s)	142.5385	512.4465
Cached Disk (MB/s)	23.00382	47.82428
Uncached Disk (MB/s)	2.19138	2.187172

Here is a graph so you can see how the Spectra improved performance.
 

These test are right in line with other AMD K6-2 CPUs running at the same speed.  These comparisons show that the overdrive of the Spectra does a nice job delivering the performance to the system.  I checked this fact out using the comparison feature of Wintune; in fact the Spectra outperformed some of the other AMD K6-2s in the data base.

The Evergreen Spectra worked well on my system and I hope to see Evergreen come out with newer editions of the Spectra.  Maybe they can make 400 MHz or higher versions and even K6-3 versions.  For systems that have a BIOS included with the Spectra, you are getting added value which can save you the trouble of dealing with any of the third party software vendors.