Re: Debate: PowerMac

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From: Brent S. Stone
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 01:49

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In article <42dgil$1o6@sloth.swcp.com>,
Harlan W. Stockman <hwstock@swcp.com> wrote:
>marlin@bga.com (Marlin Frederick, Jr.) wrote:
>>ejohnso2@swarthmore.edu (Ellen S. Johnson) wrote:
>>>
>>>SPECint92:  approximately 200    SPECint92:  approximately 133
>>>SPECfp92:   approximately 200    SPECfp92:   approximately 105
>>>
>
>>performance.  Intel is famous for its Intel Xpress Box.  This is nothing but
>>a bogus system designed to maximize the Intel performance numbers for Spec
>>marks.  Really there is a third flaw.  Very few developers do as good a job
>>optimizing thier software for the hardware as the people running these Spec
>>test do.
>
>And IBM (Apply by proxy) is famous for quoting calculated SPECint on 
>hypothetical systems with 2 MB L2 cache with no wait states.  

IBM has posted SpecInt92, SpecFP92 figures for all the systems it sells.
Motorola on the other hand is posting esimated Specmarks for all
PPC chips, and no Spec #'s for its powerstacks.

>I'd bet that many inexpensive commercial Pentium systems, based on the 
>Triton chip set and pipeline burst cache and EDO RAM, can now best the 
>performance of the Intel Xpress box.

And you don't know what Spec marks the Triton boards produce because
no commercial x86 system manufacturer releases Spec marks for their
systems.  I'd take the bet considering Intel would obviously post
the highest marks they could obtain on any x86 system.

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