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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:20:31 03/01/04

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On March 01, 2004 at 15:22:10, Brian Richardson wrote:

>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.

Vincent quoted K7 vs Itanium.  Eugene responded with data for those two
processors.  I didn't pick them either.


>
>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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