From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 14 00:58:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA19760 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 00:58:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from murkwood.gaffaneys.com (dialup7.gaffaneys.com [134.129.252.26]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA19754 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 00:58:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from zach@localhost) by murkwood.gaffaneys.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA13019; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 02:59:39 -0600 (CST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UltraSPARC and MicroSPARC vs Pentium Pro ? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.89) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Zach Heilig Date: 14 Feb 1997 02:58:59 -0600 In-Reply-To: Jason Andresen's message of Thu, 13 Feb 1997 16:11:38 +0000 () Message-ID: <87d8u3ojak.fsf@murkwood.gaffaneys.com> Lines: 35 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jason Andresen writes: > It looks like the P6-200 beats the Sparc Ultra I in integer and loses in > floating point performance. No suprise there. > Processor Clock Rate SpecInt '95 SpecFloat '95 > Ultra I 167 MHz 6.3 9.4 > P6 200 MHz 8.7 6.7 I realize that clock rate between two separate architectures don't compare very well at all, but I find it interesting when people compare x86 hardware to , they tend to choose a higher clockrate for the x86 hardware. I'd like to see P6-180 (I don't think they make a 166/7...) verses the Ultra I. To change the subject somewhat... It would also be interesting to see a comparison between the 500MHz Alpha (or any of the new alphas... they start at 366MHz) and the P6-200. >From what I see in the ad here, a 500 MHz Alpha is priced to be fairly competetive with the P6-200. Too bad for WinNT 4.0 it only runs the Alpha in 32 bit mode (according to this ad). The 366MHz Alpha is even within the price range of a lot of home buyers. That price of $3k looks extremely attractive! I think I'm going to start saving my pennies. -- Zach Heilig (zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com) | ALL unsolicited commercial email Support bacteria -- it's the only | is unwelcome. I avoid dealing form of culture some people have! | with companies that email ads.