Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 22:00:19 01/29/02
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POWER4 is really very good processor, but you must read fine print before trusting published POWER4 Spec2k results. Their wonderful submitted result is a result from 8 CPUs system. Yes, only one CPU run the benchmarks, but it used shared L3 caches of all the 8 CPUs – 128Mb of L3 cache total :-) Eugene On January 29, 2002 at 23:48:32, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On January 29, 2002 at 15:30:51, Dan Andersson wrote: > >>Sorry! I was less that clear in my wording. I eluded to the ratio between the >>pipeline lengths of the different G# CPU's. And the ratio is definitelly larger >>than one, moreso due to the previous very low stage count. I also realize that >>it is only one of the factors slowing it down. Ramping a low power embedded >>processor is close to madness, IMO. Go MIPS Apple, gawd'dagnit! > >I don't think MIPS would do Apple any good. The 500MHz R14000 is about as fast >as a 700MHz Pentium 3. The GHz G4s are faster than that. If Apple wants to get >serious about faster computers, they need to make a deal with IBM to get a >personal computer version of the POWER4. That would be awesome. > >-Tom
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