Author: Dan Homan
Date: 09:07:02 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. Alpha 21164A at 600 MHz gets a specint95 of 18.8 Pentium II at 400 MHz gets a specint95 of 15.8 (source: www.microprocessor.sscc.ru/microprocessor/ which is a cool site, by the way.) So they are close, but the Alpha still has the edge; of course the 21164 is not the most current Alpha chip. The new Alpha 21264A at 600 MHz should get a specint95 of 40+. Does anyone know the exact number? My understanding is that this chip will also reach clock rates much higher than 600 MHz. > >Also, wasn't Digital taken over by Compaq and Intel? Can you even buy an >Alpha any more? I think they were bought by Compaq, but will still produce the Alpha (and later generations) for some time. Intel has some access to the Alpha technology, but I am not sure what the exact relationship is. Of course, floating point is where the Alpha really flies... I hope they keep making it, so that those of us who do lots of FFT's and other floating point math can continue to fly. - Dan > >Cheers, >Tom
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