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- From: lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay)
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- Subject: Re: DEC Alpha AXP System Performance
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- Date: 10 Nov 92 19:28:18 GMT
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- bhandarkar@wrksys.enet.dec.com (Dileep Bhandarkar) writes:
- >Here is a summary of SPEC results for Alpha AXP Systems announced today.
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- >DEC 10000 Model 610 AXP, @200 MHz
- > SPECint92 106.54
- > SPECfp92 200.36
- >DEC 4000 Model 610 AXP, @160 MHz
- > SPECint92 83.51
- > SPECfp92 143.10
- >DEC 3000 Model 400 AXP, @133 MHz
- > SPECint92 65.32
- > SPECfp92 112.2
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- HP's announcement today mentioned
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- HP 735 and 755, @99 MHz
- SPECint92 80
- SPECfp92 150.6
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- So, we now have non-simulated non-prototype-system numbers for the
- DEC 21064 chip and the HP 7100 chip. The result is that the HP at 99
- MHz has about the SPECs of a 21064 at 160 MHz.
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- DEC wins the performance-at-any-price race with a 200 MHz offering,
- with 1.33 x the SPECs of the hottest HP.
-
- The performance-at-a-price race is closer. The 99 MHz HP 735 is $35k
- versus $39k for a 150 MHz Alpha. Practical issues (like ship dates
- and configuration details) dominate the technical issues here. Which
- is sort-of the message that DEC and HP want you to hear, since they
- plan to migrate the technology into cheaper boxes.
-
- Damn that's fast.
- --
- Don D.C.Lindsay Carnegie Mellon Computer Science
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