[rescue] SGI Indy Processor Question

[Gerhard Lenerz]

Hello,

Tuesday, February 4, 2003, 9:25:28 AM, you wrote:


>> I know I probably won't keep both, as I also have an Indogo 2 on the
>> way, so I have a question on what is better to keep...
>> 
>> an R4400 175MHz or an R5000 150MHz (512K cache) ?
[...]
> The R5000/150SC should generally outperform the R4400/175, especially in
> floating point intensive operations (you may need to extrapolate some of his 
> benchmarks based on scores from the 5000/150PC, 5000/180SC and R4400/200).

  It's probably worth trying both. After a few tests a decided to keep
  the R4400/175 in my server - other choice was (among others) the
  R5000SC/150 mentioned here. While the R5000 is a newer CPU and *is*
  faster for some tasks I guess my applications on the server make
  good use of the larger 2nd level cache and thus the machine feels a
  bit snappier with the older CPU (main applications I felt a
  difference: leafnode newsserver/-cache and slrn newsreader).


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