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

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From: Arun Gupta
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 03:05
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In article  Dan Pop <Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch> cited this machine
>
>SNI/Pyr PC/E5S    Pentium    30/90   256+8/8      86.3    72.7  Jul94 c.bmarks

and wrote that it takes a 604 to show a marginal edge over the Pentium.

Here is the set of numbers for 601s that I found, Enjoy ! 
[Here's how the argument has gone so far :
	1. Dan Pop claims that Pentium 66 beats 601/66, pulls a couple
	of examples from the specmark table to "prove" that.

	2. Since there are more specmarks than his examples, he then pulls
	out the Pentium 90, and digresses on price.  He also claims that 
	only a 604 beats that. 

	3. To be observed (I think its now going to be price).
]

-arun gupta

[ taken from comp.benchmarks, 
From: jdd@cdf.toronto.edu (John DiMarco)
Subject: SPECmark table
]
******** TABLE 3: SPECint92, SPECFP92 ********
[much truncated]
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
System          CPU        ClkMHz  Cache      SPECint SPECfp  Info  Source
Name            (NUMx)Type ext/in  Ext+I/D    92      92      Date  Obtained
=============== ========== ======= ========== ======= ======= ===== ==========
IBM N40         MPC601     50      32           41.7    51.0  Mar95 www.ibm
IBM 250         MPC601     66      32           62.6    72.2  Jul94 www.ibm
IBM 250         MPC601     80      32           77.6    89.4  Jul94 www.ibm
IBM 25T         MPC601     66      32           62.6    78.8  Mar95 www.ibm
IBM 25T         MPC601     80      32           72.2    90.4  Mar95 www.ibm
IBM C10         MPC601     80      32           78.8    90.4  Jul94 www.ibm
IBM C10         MPC601     80      1M+32        90.5   100.8  Jul94 www.ibm
IBM 40P         MPC601     66      32           63.7    67.8  Mar95 www.ibm
IBM 40P         MPC601     66      256+32       75.1    77.0  Mar95 www.ibm
IBM 41[T|W]     MPC601     80      512+32       88.1    98.7  Jul94 www.ibm
IBM 41[T|W]     MPC601     80      32           78.8    90.4  Jul94 www.ibm
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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
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