[geeks] New Itanium machines from SGI

[Dave McGuire]

On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 03:04 AM, Mike Meredith wrote:
> I wouldn't be surprised if it is true ... MIPS is hardly a speed demon
> anymore.

   Umm, compared to what, exactly?  These are the numbers that I see.

proc			clock	SPECint	/cyc	SPECfp	/cyc
-----------------------------------------------------
R12000			 400	353		0.882	407		1.017
R14000			 500	427		0.854	463		0.926
PA-8700			 750	604		0.805	576		0.768
POWER3-II		 450	316		0.702	409		0.909
Alpha EV67		 833	584		0.701	658		0.790
UltraSPARC-III	 900	467		0.518	482		0.964
Itanium			 800	404		0.505	711		0.889
Pentium-III		1000	462		0.462	340		0.340
Athlon			1400	554		0.396	458		0.327
Pentium-4		1700	586		0.344	608		0.358

   Granted this is old information (I know the R14000 is available in at 
least a 600MHz version now) but the numbers don't lie, man.

      -Dave

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