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Subject: Re: Intel Itanium 2 Benchmarks

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 10:58:04 05/30/02

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On May 30, 2002 at 09:08:22, Slater Wold wrote:

>On May 30, 2002 at 08:33:52, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On May 30, 2002 at 01:23:35, Slater Wold wrote:
>>
>>>On May 29, 2002 at 20:34:37, Scott Gasch wrote:
>>>
>>>>On May 29, 2002 at 19:50:20, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On May 29, 2002 at 18:39:03, Scott Gasch wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>I've been gently informed that I'm not supposed to talk about the speed of
>>>>>>not-released processors, sorry about that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Scott
>>>>>
>>>>>I have to admit I realized you were unwittingly violating an NDA, but my
>>>>>curiosity got the better of me. I should have told you straight off what you
>>>>>were disclosing might get you in trouble. My apologies.
>>>>
>>>>No apologies needed, it's my own stupidity at fault here.  For the record I'm
>>>>not in any trouble.  I self-censored when it was pointed out to me that I could
>>>>possibly get into trouble with this.
>>>>
>>>>Scott
>>>
>>>Well hell, now you got us all curious.  Now I wanna know what was said.  ;)
>>
>>Well i got info from deep throat lucky. Other source in this case.
>>This source confirms that for 64 bits applications like crafty the
>>i2 is very fast. 1.5 million nodes a second is not bad.
>>
>>your bench you posted here at 2.53Ghz P4 was like 950k a second or so?
>>
>>that's of course major victory for intel getting 1.5 MLN nodes a second
>>on a 1Ghz processor.
>
>P4 2.53Ghz was 965k nps.
>Profiled P4 2.53Ghz was 1.09M nps.
>Profiled AMD 1.73Ghz was 1.0M nps.
>Profiled dual AMD 1.73Ghz was 1.6M nps.
>
>So one i2 is == to a Dual AMD 1.73Ghz.  (IN TERMS OF SPEED.)
>
>And those suckers are *very* scalable.  (While AMDs are not ATM.)

right, regrettably the price doesn't scale down
much of such a 16 processor mckinley. like $10 million?

It's different league of course.





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