Speed of P5

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From: Nils Reidar Boe Olsen
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:05

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Rumours from this news-group says that the P5 processor
will have a FPU which is an upgrade from the one that is
used in the i860 processor. This should mean that the P5
should run floating-point intensive programs faster than
the i860. I am presently running a 3D CFD code on my PC,
which has a 25 MHz 486 and a MicroWay Number Smasher i860
card. The code runs 26 times faster on the i860 than on
the 486 (no swapping to disk). So my question is: will 
the P5 really be at least 20-30 times faster than the 
486 on floating-point intensive programs ?

Nils Reidar Olsen

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From: nro@nhl-1.nhl.sintef.no (Nils Reidar Boe Olsen)
Subject: Speed of P5
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