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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,no.amiga
- Subject: Re: FWD: Fate of 68080
- Date: 26 Jan 1996 05:15:00 +0100
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4e9kg4$i1@serpens.rhein.de>
- References: <4ctbjv$js6@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <867.6583T1061T1835@norconnect.no> <judas.0hjs@tomtec.abg.sub.org> <4e7rhi$4fo@maureen.teleport.com> <md94-tar.822613553@nada.kth.se>
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- md94-tar@nada.kth.se (Tomas Arvidsson) writes:
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- >(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.
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- 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.
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- >No, it isn't but it is still more than twice as fast as *any* existing
- >PPC today (see table above).
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- The table mentions SPEC results. That tells you nothing about processors.
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