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

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From: David K. Every
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 02:42

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In article <4jf32c$qm6@steel.interlog.com>, daveacg@interlog.com (Dave
Glue) wrote:

> PPC is faster running Bytemarks. That is all that it shows.  Wow,
> looking at SpecMarks, the Pro is faster, guess it's the faster
> processor then.

OK.. but Apple and others have shown that PowerMacs are faster than P5's
by a gawd awful amount - up to 3 times at the same clock rate (fp
intensive stuff)... now according to Intels OWN numbers, the P6 is only
50%+ faster at the same clock rate (at least the ones I saw)... so that
would make it what?!?! A heck of a lot slower in the real world than a
604?!?!

Which seems to be the case I've seen... (only based on the P5's). Intel
claimed it was as good as the 601... it was EATEN ALIVE. We did some
comparisons and the 66mhz 601 was beating the 120mhz P5 in processor or
floating point intesive stuff. So now they claim the P6 is better still...
and I'm supposed to beleive what? That THIS TIME they mean it... that they
didn't lie (market creatively) like they always do?!?!  I look at the
performance difference on my 150mhz 604 (as compared to a 66mhz 601) and
think, there is NO WAY that Intel made the P6 3 TIMES faster (minimum)
than the P5... which is what they would have had to have done.
-- 
David K. Every           | MaciDo Warrior - The Macintosh Way
Sr. Software Engineer    | 
Jostens Learning Corp.   |

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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: 29 Mar 1996 02:42:10 GMT
Organization: Jostens Learning
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