On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 03:49:06PM -0500, Curt Sampson wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> 
> > Actually, the AMD K7 "Athlon" appears to be the current champ for single-CPU
> > integer performance.  See the SPEC website for details.
> 
> It doesn't look like that to me. The best result I've found there
> for the Athlon is 29.4/29.4 at 650 MHz. Even being generous, that's
> not going to get you more than 32 or so on an 700 MHz CPU.
> 
> On the other hand, a Compaq AlphaServer GS60E Model 6/700 with a
> single 700 MHz 21264A rates at 39.1/34.7. This is with 8 MB of
> third-level cache, vs. AMD's .5 MB, which is no doubt part of the
> difference. (Performance under NetBSD, as mentioned before, isn't
> likely to be as good, since gcc is not as good at optimising as
> Digital^WCompaq C is.)

Yeah -- it looks like Compaq's finally got the numbers for 700MHz boxes
up there now.  Are they actually shipping yet?

The GS60 is the old VAX10000/AS8200/AS8400 "TurboLaser" platform, right?
That probably explains the relatively poor FP performance; that box was
choked for memory bandwidth with the slower 21264 processors, and it's not
like it's getting any better...

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Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
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