Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 16:54:00 06/01/98
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On June 01, 1998 at 11:36:22, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >>Finally, there's more X86 than just the PII. Rebel runs best on AMD, and >>they are also moving forward towards the K7. Intel will introduce 450 >>Mhz PII CPUs on July 26th AFAIR, there's still no 450 Mhz G3 machine you >>can buy. And outside mainstream, nobody really dares to challenge the >>Alphas ... > >Why do you say this?? From various SPECints that I've seen, it seems the >400 MHz Pentium II runs faster than any Alpha. > >Also, wasn't Digital taken over by Compaq and Intel? Can you even buy an >Alpha any more? > >Cheers, >Tom you are looking at the "wrong" alphas. the 600mhz versions pretty well blast a pentium. And when you consider 64 bit math, the difference is more pronounced. When we played chess in Paris, the plain vanilla 500mhz alpha we used produced 250K nps, while the pentium pro /200 was producing 80 K nodes per second. A 400mhz pentium is about 1.8-1.85 times faster than a P6/200 based on a bunch of benchmarks I have run myself... So the alpha really is "king of the hill" on every test I have run, and I haven't even touched the 800mhz versions and faster that DEC has running.
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