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- From: worc0223@news.ox.ac.uk (Benjamin Hutchings)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,no.amiga
- Subject: Re: FWD: Fate of 68080
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- Date: 27 Jan 1996 15:05:32 GMT
- Organization: Oxford University, England
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- Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
- : md94-tar@nada.kth.se (Tomas Arvidsson) writes:
-
- : >(3) This is the fastest available PPC today. There is a 150 MHz 604e
- : >coming up, expected to give 250 SPECint-92, but it isn't here yet.
-
- : SPEC doesn't evaluate processors but systems and simple logic should
- : show you that a 150MHz 604 can't be >40% faster than a 133MHz if
- : the test would just evaluate the processor.
-
- Note the "e". "e" versions of PPC processors are faster, MHz for MHz, than the
- plain numbered versions. Don't know how or why...
-
- : >No, it isn't but it is still more than twice as fast as *any* existing
- : >PPC today (see table above).
-
- : The table mentions SPEC results. That tells you nothing about processors.
-
- The idea is, to give number-crunching speed in a particular system. The fact is
- that companies like Intel and Motorola will set up systems themselves in an
- attempt to get the most out of the processor for the test, so that they can
- advertise their SPEC ratings. So if one compares these sorts of tests, then
- that will give a pretty good comparison of the processors' number-crunching
- (which seems to be most of the work they do).
-
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