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Article #3411Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Jason D. Malone
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 22:03
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 22:03
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gupta@mrspock.mt.att.com (Arun Gupta) wrote: >On Byte benchmarks, my 7100/66 ( 601 PPC at 66 MHz, main bus 33 MHz) >runs at between 0.90 and 0.95 on integer benchmarks depending on >the level of optimization, on which the Dell XPS P-90 (Pentium 90 MHz, >main bus 66 MHz) by definition scores 1.0. On floating point >multiplication and division my PPC scores 1.2 . On floating point >using the exp(), sin(), cos() functions, my PPC however, is 10-15 >times slower than the Pentium. I am told this is because of a rather >poor math library -- I will find out more about this as I update my >system software from the now-venerable System 7.1.2. First---I question this....Secondly, there's no way in hell that a PPC can remotely compare to the Pentium....look at the SPEC numbers, you will se.....BTW the upcoming 620 is expected to get a 4 (MUA HAHAH)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!taco.cc.ncsu.edu!news From: "Jason D. Malone" <jdmalone@eos.ncsu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: 21 Mar 1996 22:03:27 GMT Organization: NCSU Message-ID: <4isjnf$8ts@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> References: <nevin-0602962253080001@150.135.1.79> <ted.oliver-1403960716070001@129.219.116.52> <danpop.826855661@rscernix> <cirby-1903960216110001@pm2-09.magicnet.net> <4ip8dj$92d@nntpb.cb.att.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: n00015-103sul.unity.ncsu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.12 (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.05 9000/712) X-URL: news:4ip8dj$92d@nntpb.cb.att.com