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Subject: Re: Power4 and Crafty benchmark?

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 14:55:55 10/05/01

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On October 05, 2001 at 17:49:46, Gregor Overney wrote:

>I got the SPECint2000 values for IBM's Power4 without a detailed listing on how
>well it performed regarding the Crafty benchmark. So far, a 1.4 Athlon is still
>leading with 793 compared to P4/2GHz with 644.
>
>The information I got so far is from:
>http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/datactr/p690_specs.html
>
>However, IBM packed two CPU cores into one causing a monster with around 170
>million transistors. The CPU runs at 1.3 GHz. It has a great bandwith of over
>100 Gbytes/s between L2 cache and the two CPU cores.
>
>It certainly looks like a nice multi-processor for the next generation of chess
>computers.
>

Do you know if this is intended as the next generation to the PowerPC (that is
used in Macintosh computers)?



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