[geeks] New Itanium machines from SGI

[Kevin]

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Dave, where did this info come from?

/KRM

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 07:09:55 -0500
Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> --
> Dave McGuire           "She's a cheek pincher.  I
> have scars." St. Petersburg, FL                      
>    -Gary Nichols
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