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

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1 total messages Started by Arun Gupta Tue, 01 Aug 1995 02:38

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Author: Arun Gupta
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 02:38

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Someone wrote, giving Specmarks of some 66MHz processor systems :
>
>System           CPU      ClkMHz Cache     SPECint SPECfp  Info  Source
>Name             Type     ext/in Ext+I/D   92      92      Date  Obtained
>==============   ======== ====== ========= ======= ======= ===== ==========
>SNI/Pyr PC/E5S   Pentium  33/66  256+8/8   67.4    61.5    Sep93 SPEC newsl
>Compaq DeskproXL Pentium  33/66  256+8/8   65.1    63.6    Sep93 SPEC newsl
>IBM 250          MPC601   66     32        62.6    72.2    Jul94 www.ibm

From the current version of the table from which the above are taken
(to be found on comp.benchmarks) :

 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 25T          MPC601   66     32        62.6    78.8    Mar95 www.ibm


>I avoided the Intel Xpress numbers and stuck to Siemens Nixdorf and Compaq,
>for obvious reasons.

Just for comparison's sake, here they are :

 Intel Xpress     Pentium  66     256+8/8   78.0    63.6    Mar95 www.intel

What is the story with Intel Xpress ?
>
>The SPEC apps don't seem to run faster on the 601/66 than on the P5/66.
>Oh, sorry, I forgot that SPEC data are pure bullshit (because they show the
>Pentiums faster than "everbody" knows they actually are :-)

Isn't advocacy fun ?

-arun gupta

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