Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Douglas Borsom
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 15:58

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Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) writes:

>OK.  Here are the numbers for a system designed for 2nd level cache
>(the 250 apparently isn't, so I can't add any cache to it, sorry):

>IBM 40P           MPC601     66      256+32       75.1    77.0  Mar95 www.ibm

Wow!  The 601 handily beats the Pentium in +both+ SPECfp (we already 
knew that) +and+ SPECint.

>Should I be "unpleasantly surprised"?

Only if you imagine the Pentium is a match for the 601.

	-doug

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