Author: Peter Kasinski
Date: 06:31:14 03/23/98
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On March 23, 1998 at 08:48:44, Carsten Kossendey wrote: >On March 23, 1998 at 04:35:15, Baldomero Garcia, Jr. wrote: > >>That depends on the hardware. A G3/300 Mhz Mac will be very likely >>stronger >>than a P200MMX. I don't know which one would be stronger between a >>PII333 Mhz >>or a G3/300. >>Baldo. > >The G3, by a fair margin ;) > >Here are a few numbers on execution speed as far as Hiarcs 6 is >concerned. This all comes from running a test suite, don't ask me for >details ;) : > >Machine CPU performance nps/MHz >------- --- ----------- ------- >Mac G3 /266 266MHz 750 39,934 nps 150 >Pent II /266 266MHz PII 25,604 nps 96 >Mac 8600/200 200MHz 604e 24,203 nps 121 >Mac 7300/180 180MHz 604e 22,184 nps 123 >AMD K6/200 200MHz K6 21,396 nps 107 >Pentium Pro 200MHz P6 17,438 nps 87 >Pentium P5 200MHz P5 12,680 nps 63 > >Since the 604e provides nearly the same nps/MHz (1.6% difference in >above table) regardless of CPU clock, I'd assume the 750(G3)/300 gets >around 45,000 nps (rounded down). > >Now if the same happens to be true for the PII, you'll need a 466 MHz >PII to get at least CLOSE to those 45,000 nps ;) > >Problem one: no 466 MHz PII in sight. Watch for the April 15th announcement from Intel. Pentium II at 400 MHz/100 MHz bus + 2Mb CSRAM L2 cache should approach these figures right away. In July-August the 450 MHz PII is expected. For more details check out http://www.tomshardware.com PK >Problem two: 340 MHz G3 reality today.
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