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Article #2856Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Joe Ragosta
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 15:45
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 15:45
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In article <4de92u$ded@baygull.rtd.com>, Lawson English <kensal@rtd.com> wrote: > However, the debate that has been raging is: > > WHY are the Pentium Pro SPECint/fpXX scores so high in comparison to the > PowerPC and other CPU's, when the BYTEMark scores are so low comparing > the same systems? > > > Simply referring us to the half of the figures that happen to favor > Intel doesn't resolve the issue. We KNOW that Intel beats the pants off > of PowerPC's and many other CPU's on SPEC. > > But why is there such a HUGE difference between the SPEC and the BYTE? Or on applications performance. WinNT on a 604 is much faster than WinNT on a P6 (according to Byte Magazine). -- Regards, Joe Ragosta Copyright Joseph M. Ragosta, 1995. Non-exclusive, royalty free license to distribute this post granted to any service provider except Microsoft. Fee for Microsoft is $1,000 per posting.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!ppp-1001.dca.net!user From: jragosta@dca.net (Joe Ragosta) 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: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:45:42 -0500 Organization: Graver Chemical Message-ID: <jragosta-1601961045420001@ppp-1001.dca.net> References: <m.duran-1611950252110001@port19.codetel.net.do> <49gkhp$3ag@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <30c6ee29.1582369@news.metronet.com> <1995Dec18.145106.44180@ac.dal.ca> <jragosta-1812951544340001@ppp-1017.dca.net> <4bpgk6$jc1@vodka.intele.net> <4bvd1r$qn3@ <4dbtqa$l7e@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <4dd508$3g@cloner2.ix.netcom.com> <4de92u$ded@baygull.rtd.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-1001.dca.net X-Newsreader: Value-Added NewsWatcher 2.1d3+