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Subject: Re: Faster than dual Xeon 2.8GHz?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 12:40:47 04/22/03

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On April 21, 2003 at 19:41:22, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>On April 21, 2003 at 17:41:17, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>On April 21, 2003 at 14:46:27, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>>
>>>>Not really. Processors have their strengths and weaknesses. I'm sure you could
>>>>find some pathological code that runs much slower on the Athlon than the P4.
>>>
>>>If you find anything, let me know. So far I know of nothing. I however know
>>>of *MANY* things that run pitiful on a p4.
>>
>>IIRC, a game of life thing I wrote a few months ago ran 2-3x slower on my AXP
>>2000+ than on my 2.2GHz P4. Also I think the P4 has won pretty much every media
>>encoding benchmark I've seen, often by large margins.
>
>Thats also bandwidth intensive, and it just so happens most pages run the bios
>timings at the absolute lowest setting making the Athlons bandwidth horrible.
>Pick ANY multimedia program, grab a P4 and lets benchmark against my system.
>I've already done the benchmarks, as I said in a previous email.. properly
>configured Athlons (non-gimped bioses) will beat a P4 any day. Any time you'd
>like me to back it up let me know. :)

Well, just to eliminate any sort of bias, let's go to SPECint--

gzip - P4 faster
vpr - about even
gcc - P4 significantly faster
mcf - P4 WAY faster
crafty - AXP faster
parser - P4 faster
eon - about even
perlbmk - about even
gap - P4 a lot faster
vortex - about even
bzip2 - about even
twolf - about even

I don't see the P4 doing horribly on any of these tests and it does quite well
on several.

-Tom



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