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- From: jerry@pawnee.telecom.ksu.edu (Jerry Anderson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Performance of Sparc Classic?
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 15:53:02 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- phoenix@well.sf.ca.us (Benjamin McLemore) writes:
-
- > I am interested in knowing how the performance of the new Sparc Classic
- > compares with that of other Sun workstations. The only Sun I have
- > used is a SparcStation 2. A price of $4295 would seem to indicate that
- > some corners had been cut-- is the consensus that this is not true?
-
- Performance specs from January 1993 Florida SunFlash, Vol 49 #15:
-
- Machine SPECint92 SPECfp92
- ---------------- --------- --------
- SPARCstation LX 26.4 21.0
- SPARCclassic 26.4 21.0
- SPARCstation 2 21.8 22.8
- SPARCstation IPX 21.8 21.5
- SPARCstation ELC 18.2 17.9
- SPARCstation IPC 13.8 11.1
-
- Machine SPECmark89
- ---------------- ----------
- SPARCstation 1+ 12
- SPARCstation 1 10
- SPARCstation SLC 8.6
-
- Generally speaking, the integer processing benchmarks (SPECint92)
- are probably a better indicator of useful speed than the
- floating-point benchmarks (SPECfp92), unless you're doing a lot
- of scientific calculations or other floating-point processing.
-
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