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

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From: Pedro Baltazar Valconcelos
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 16:17

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sidea guys (sidea8120@sidea.com) wrote:
: i personally noticed a big difference in speed going from a win 95 P120 
: 16-4x to a PPC 100 (pmac7500) 16-4x, like maybe 15 percent or more. I was 
: actually surprised, but happy to see Apple get it right.

  This is unfair for the P120: what MB did it have? what video
board? what discs & controllers?
 The PowerMac has a VRAM-based video board and SCSI discs, cd-rom
so you should compare with a similarly equiped PC. The nice thing
is you can buy _extremely_ fast VRAM-video cards (with an S3 968,
or a Matrox, for example) and PCI SCSI adapters (Adaptec or Buslogic,
to name two) and _sill_ spend less in the whole deal than the
price of the PowerMac...
  As to the brute-force processor speed, well just check 
universal benchmarks, such as dhrystone, wheetstone, whatever.
I think (can't be sure) the P120 is significally faster in all
except maybe floating-point (I can't remember which is faster there).




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Pedro Vasconcelos                      email: pbv@ncc.up.pt 
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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
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