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

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From: Garby Leon
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 00:00

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From: garb@ix.netcom.com(Garby Leon)
Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
To:  cirby@gate.net (Chad Irby)
You wrote: 
>
>Garby Leon (garb@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
>: 
>: The 200Mhz Pentium Pro Spec benchmarks (8.09 SPECint95) show that on

>: 32 bit code, it's integer performance beats anything now available,
>: including the 300Mhz Dec Alpha (7.33 Specint95) and 133Mhz Power PC 
>: 604 (4.07 SPECint95).

>: Too add insult to injury, some industry analysts that have taken an
>: in-depth look at the architecture and are speculating that the
>: architecture will support clock frequencies nearly twice as high as
>: those released. It may be possible that Intel is sandbagging on 
>: PentiumPro performance in order to keep sales of Pentiums strong.
>
>...or it's possible that the analysts are just a little bit wrong.
>

Ppro will go to 300Mhz easily.  You can bet the farm on that.

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