Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 05:27:06 01/30/02
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On January 30, 2002 at 01:00:19, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >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 Wow that's major fraud, as expected! They didn't need RAM to run the programs anymore, this is sick! >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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