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- From: pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Is it Sunset yet?!?!
- Message-ID: <1943@niktow.canisius.edu>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 20:13:04 GMT
- References: <1993Jan6.203033.8638@cc.umontreal.ca>
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- Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo NY. 14208
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- In article <1993Jan6.203033.8638@cc.umontreal.ca>, soubyran@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Soubyran Richard) writes:
- >
- > Having the January 1993 BYTE almost in front of me... there is an
- > ad from Sun showing their SPARCstation LX at 59 mips. I know! I
- > know! I know! Mips are meaningless... but still... can be really
- > impressive!
- >
- > My question to you is this: What does SGI has to say about that
- > workstation? Does SGI has anything similar to it? And for the same
- > price? We have many Indigoes here at the University of Montreal...
- > and I am more than satisfied with their performance...
- >
- > I would just like a comparison between the Sun and a similar
- > product from SGI...
- >
-
- Well, at this stage of the game, just about the only companies that still
- advertise "MIP numbers" are SUN and the Intel-based PC vendors.
-
- The following are numbers from the January 1993 Unix Review issue, which
- contained a review of the newest Indigo. They also provided the same numbers
- for some other systems, including the SUN 4/75 SPARCstation 2. I assume that
- you can extrapolate the SUN numbers to the SPARC LX:
-
-
- SGI Indigo R4000 SUN 4/75 SPARC 2
-
- Processor MHz 50 40
-
- Dhrystone 1.1 147K 48K
- Dhrystone 2.0 131K 40K
-
- Whetstones single 52.6 29.3
- Whetstones double 41.5 19.5
-
- MFLOPS single 10.8 6.3
- MFLOPS double 9.4 3.1
-
- SPECmarks (prob. 1989) 69.6 18.9
-
- *Sequential disk test 1707KB/sec 602KB/sec
- *"Random" disk test 1219KB/sec 328KB/sec
- (*8192-byte blocks)
-
- "Khornerstones"
- (cpu,fpu,disk test mix) 138K 43K
-
-
-
- Base configuration: 16MB memory, 16-inch color monitor,"entry-level graphics"
- OS, manuals
-
- Base config list price: $12,485
-
- Tested configuration: 1.2 GB disk, 16 MB additional ram, software options
-
- Tested config list price: $21,475
-
-
-
- greg pavlov
- pavlov@fstrf.org
-