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- In article <Pine.SV4.3.91.950415130058.13192D-100000@cello>, mcoats@qnet.com
- (Manuel Coats) writes...
- >On Fri, 14 Apr 1995, David Kim wrote:
- >> According to a performance comparison chart sent to me by DeskStation
- >> Technology, a Raptor 3 workstation with the 5/300 (Alpha 21164/300) CPU
- >> module installed is approximately:
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- >> 31 times faster than a Raptor IIA (Alpha 21064A/275)
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- If this is based on CPU performance alone, then 31x seems high. The
- likely win from similarly-clocked 21064A vs. 21164 is probably more on
- the order of 1.5x to 2x, since the 21064A does dual-instruction-issue
- and the 21164 does quad-issue.
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- With cache effects, there could be additional differences: you might
- have a big win if you hit in the 112KB of various on-chip caches in the
- 21164 but missed the 32KB of on-chip caches of the 21064A. Or you might
- have a big win if the Raptor IIA has a tiny board-level cache and the
- Raptor 3 has a big on-board cache.
-
- But even with possible cache differences, 31x still seems like rather a
- lot.
-
- /John Henning
- CSD Performance Group
- Digital Equipment Corporation
- henning@zko.dec.com
- Speaking for myself, not Digital
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