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Article #2735Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Damir Smitlener
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 01:25
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 01:25
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William Taylor wrote: > > In article <davis-0901961913020001@pppsb24.itg.ti.com> Tom L. Davis, > davis@adrs1.dseg.ti.com writes: > > Nobody argues that the PPC is faster in floating point. However for most > > users, 99% of the time is spent in integer functions. Integer benchmarks > > show that there is very little diffeence between the 2 processors (and > > at least the x86 camp has a Pentium Pro to upgrade to today). > > > > Can you say "realtime 3D"? It is coming quickly, and Intel PC's are > going to be way behind the curve. A 604 is 1/6 the price of a P6/200 > yet offers comparable FPU speed. > Pentium's are even farther behind. Pshaw. This is meaningless for at least 2 reasons. First, 604 computers do not have any price advantage over Pentium Pro computers. Second, nobody in their right minds would do 3d without hardware acceleration, and the options for that will be fairly equal on both platforms with maybe a small price advantage on the PC side. It's the accelerators that made SGI such a hot item, not "its" CPUs. -- Damir Smitlener damir@mindspring.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.mindspring.com!usenet From: Damir Smitlener <damir@mindspring.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 20:25:38 -0500 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <30F70A12.8FFA6F0@mindspring.com> References: <nelsoni.821198530@rintintin.Colorado.EDU> <4d4omk$otj@steel.interlog.com> <Pine.SOL.3.91.960111201039.20821C-100000@howard> <4d61cs$k9s@ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: damir.mindspring.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b5 (X11; I; Linux 1.2.13 i586)