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Subject: Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt?

Author: Brian Richardson

Date: 12:22:10 03/01/04

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On March 01, 2004 at 14:24:50, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On March 01, 2004 at 14:20:41, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On March 01, 2004 at 13:59:25, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>>
>>>On March 01, 2004 at 13:49:38, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>>>
>>>>On March 01, 2004 at 12:05:17, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On February 29, 2004 at 23:38:31, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>[snip]
>>>>>
>>>>>You qualify the testresults as done for SPEC as INVALID and INCORRECT?
>>>>>
>>>>>YES or NO?
>>>>>
>>>>>[bla bla removed]
>>>>
>>>>Had you stopped to drink vodka every morning?
>>>>
>>>>Please answer only YES or NO.
>>>>
>>>>[bla bla removed]
>>>
>>>So, my previous post pointed that there are questions for which you cannot
>>>answer "YES or NO".
>>>
>>>And here is *official* SPEC data for 1.3GHz K7 and 1.5GHz Itanium2:
>>>
>>>http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/res2001q4/cpu2000-20011008-01018.html
>>>http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/res2004q1/cpu2000-20040126-02775.html
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Eugene
>>
>>
>>Please do not confuse discussions with Vincent by supplying real data.  Things
>>stay on a more equal footing if you just make up stuff and post it here.
>>
>><sarcasm off>
>>
>>:)
>
>
>For those that didn't look at the data, the 1.5ghz K7 compared to the 1.5ghz
>itanium shows a 50% faster speed on the Itanium.  IE the K7 took 127 seconds to
>run the test, the Itanium took 80.
>

Yes, but isn't the K7 a 32 bit CPU, whereas the Itanium2 is 64 bits?
If so, then clock for clock is not very indicative, especially
quoting a 2 1/2 year old benchmark.

How about Opteron vs Itanium?

>Why 1.5ghz K7?  Because Vincent was talking about "clock for clock" and Eugene
>chose to supply real data rather than barking up a hollow tree...



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