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Date:      Mon, 29 Jun 1998 23:30:21 -0700
From:      "Chris Csanady" <cc@tarsier.ca.sandia.gov>
To:        Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com>
Cc:        Tony Kimball <alk@pobox.com>, rotel@indigo.ie, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PPro vs PII 
Message-ID:  <199806300630.XAA09584@tarsier.ca.sandia.gov>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jun 1998 21:24:47 MDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980629212119.9695C-100000@altrox.atipa.com> 

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>> : Yes, but benchmarks at tomshardware.com have already established
>> : that the 100Mhz memory bus offers little improvement over the 66Mhz
>> : bus on a PII.
>> 
>> Kinda sad, to be squabbling about the tiny differences between
>> PII/PPro, when G3, Alpha, and UltraSparc systems are whipping the
>> '86s by much more substantial margins.  What's SpecInt95/SpecFP95 on a
>> 450MHz G3, anyhow?
>
>The SPECfp95 for their new 400MHz chip w/ 1MB L2 (400MHz) is 13.7,
>compared to 23.5 for a Sun Ultra60 Model 360.

Meanwhile, I think the new Alpha is safely keeping its lead. :)

KP21264-3.5X Est. 43 SPECint95/64 SPECfp95

I must say, there is nothing like breakthrough after breakthrough from intel.

Chris



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