From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Jun 29 23:32:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA12447 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 23:32:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tarsier.ca.sandia.gov (tarsier.ca.sandia.gov [146.246.246.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA12429 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 23:32:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cc@tarsier.ca.sandia.gov) Received: from tarsier.ca.sandia.gov (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tarsier.ca.sandia.gov (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA09584; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 23:30:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cc@tarsier.ca.sandia.gov) Message-Id: <199806300630.XAA09584@tarsier.ca.sandia.gov> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Atipa cc: Tony Kimball , rotel@indigo.ie, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPro vs PII In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jun 1998 21:24:47 MDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 23:30:21 -0700 From: "Chris Csanady" Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >> : 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message