Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 11:22:18 02/28/02
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Sorry, I don't understand. We are not talking about "performance per MHz". We are talking about *absolute* performance. And here Alpha is 3% better athan contemporary P4 Xeon. Or probably we should talk about price/performance? :-) Eugene On February 28, 2002 at 13:42:34, Dann Corbit wrote: >On February 27, 2002 at 21:55:19, Eugene Nalimov wrote: > >>Alpha is not "2X as fast as anything around". >> >>Fastest submitted SpecInt2k result for Alpha is 621(base)/679(peak). AlphaServer >>ES45 Model 68/1000, hardware available October 2001. >> >>Dell Precision WorkStation 530 (2.0GHz P4 Xeon) has SpecInt2k >>642(base)/663(peak), hardware available September 2001. >> >>679 is greater than 663, but not 2x. Not even 1.1x. > >Interesting. At twice the clock speed, the Xeon was almost as fast! > >Thanks for proving my point.
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