From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 09:14:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA24224 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 09:14:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from fusion.gage.com (brimstone.gage.com [205.217.2.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA24218 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 09:14:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mail@localhost) by fusion.gage.com (8.8.3/8.8.4) id LAA15821; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 11:13:49 -0600 (CST) Received: from octopus.gage.com(158.60.57.50) by fusion.gage.com via smap (V2.0beta) id xma015817; Thu, 13 Feb 97 11:13:28 -0600 Received: from squid.gage.com (squid [158.60.57.101]) by octopus.gage.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA24542; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 11:13:27 -0600 (CST) Received: from schemer by squid.gage.com (NX5.67e/NX3.0S) id AA25713; Thu, 13 Feb 97 11:13:26 -0600 Message-Id: <9702131713.AA25713@squid.gage.com> Received: by schemer.gage.com (NX5.67g/NX3.0X) id AA01669; Thu, 13 Feb 97 11:13:26 -0600 Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.0 v146.2) In-Reply-To: X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 1.3) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.146.2) From: Ben Black Date: Thu, 13 Feb 97 11:13:24 -0600 To: Walter Hafner Subject: Re: UltraSPARC and MicroSPARC vs Pentium Pro ? Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <199702120330.TAA15056@f30.hotmail.com> <199702121833.KAA18506@freefall.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >As you can see from the reference: > >- Overall performance is about the same as a Sparc 20 >- float is actually much faster on the Pentium as on the Sparc 20. > so a 133MHz P5 beats a 60MHz SuperSPARC? amazing. >Considering the price, the Pentium is of course the best you can get - >at least for image processing! (PC's have faster and better graphic >boards too, compared to typical workstations!) > yeah, those creator 3d boards with ALUs in the VRAM are just such junk. i'd much rather have a nice matrox board. gimme a break. >BTW: A P-Pro 200 has an overall benchmark of 3.0 ... faster than a Ultra >143 or Indigo 2! I can't give you exact results since our P-Pro is >currently in San Jose (SPIE conference exhibit). > a 200MHz P6 beats a 143MHz UltraSPARC? amazing. according to your benchmarks, the 167MHz UltraSPARC beats the 200MHz P6. how about numbers for a 200MHz Ultra? b3n