Broadcom CPU equivalent to which Intel line of CPU?

So, as I was cleaning up my pile of old computer scrap parts, i found more than enough pieces to build several good boxes to run wired+wireless, router/firewall servers using pfSense, and also several servers to run NFS/NAS using freeNAS (NFS works perfectly as a VMware Datastore)

But I was curios about the CPU equivalent of those Linksys routers using Broadcom BCM4785 series of CPUs at 200Mhz, 300Mhz, 350Mhz

If we are to compare the 200Mhz CPU to an intel CPU, it will be more like a:
486 200Mhz CPU?
Pentium 200Mhz CPU?
or a Pentium II 200Mhz CPU?

it definitely can not be faster than a Pentium III CPU, that's for sure.

Cheers! :t

Here is a link to the specs at Broadcom .. I leave it to you to figure out which is better

http://www.broadcom.com/products/Wir...b=features-tab

It says the Broadcom does 500 DMIPS which probably can mean Meaningless Indicator of Processor Speed. :t

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Originally Posted by cdroman

It says the Broadcom does 500 DMIPS which probably can mean Meaningless Indicator of Processor Speed. :t

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It should be very easy to compare apples to Porches (or Peaches to Herb).

The Broadcom 300MHz @ 500 DMIPS (probably Dhrystone 1.1 optimized ) would be roughly equal to the PII 300 @ 544 DMIPS. If we can extrapolate from that, the 200MHz Broadcom would be about the same as a PII 200.
http://freespace.virgin.net/roy.long...%20results.htm

thanks guys, that's helpful info, specially that drystone link :t

even at first i knew it was like comparing apple to orange,

but there had to be something that can give us a base for extrapolation, so that drystone info was quite the link.

pretty much like comparing the amount of water/nutrients an apple tree vs an orange tree absorbs.

anyways now i know which left over CPUs to use for which project.

and it seems like 486s are totally obsolete now.

i got a good dual PIII 350, dual PI 233, single P2 200, single P2 500, 486 100, all with its motherboard and RAM.

the Dual PI 233 / 512Mb is already allocated it to be a SATA RAID server (more 1.5Tb SATAs 8xSeagates using 2 PCI RAID cards), as it got load of room in a full tower case. freeNAS is going here. Gigabit NIC
so the dual PIII 350 seems to be the best candidate for the pfsense router/firewall to do the ISP load balancing / fail over. i'll need 3 NICs here (2x 100Mbps, 1x Gbps)

probably will use the remaining machines as WiFi relay point, or low level pfsense router/firewall to extend the range.
got a big load of old WiFi B nic cards, and 100Mbps nic cards

hmm... this weekend it's gonna be fun time :D