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- From: skank@iastate.edu (George L. Hall-Skank)
- Subject: Re: Power-up for AGA Machines! rumour.
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <1992Dec15.220819.21678@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <BzCyJx.D0L@fc.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:48:25 GMT
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- In article <BzCyJx.D0L@fc.hp.com> koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren) writes:
- >
- >I very much doubt a single Alpha chip is anywhere even remotely close to
- >2000 specmarks. Today's RISC CPU's tend to get somewhere between 0.5
- >and 1.8 specmarks per MHz.
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- [benchmarks deleted]
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- >I'd believe 200, but not 2000. Still, 200 is very, very fast. It'll
- >make your 68040 seem like an 8086 in comparison :-)
- >
- > - steve
-
- It appears that the new ALPHA runs in the 150 specmark range. Maybe
- as fast as 200 specmarks running code in tight loops from cache. I'm with
- Steve, that's not very close to 2000 but that's still *quite* impressive!
- It might even be the fastest processor on the planet, that depends on HP.
-
- --George
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