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- From: goykhman_a@apollo.hp.com (Alex Goykhman)
- Subject: Re: DEC ALPHA Performance Claims
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:15:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.235236.21699@oracle.us.oracle.com> dbmoore@us.oracle.com (Dennis Moore) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov11.053600.27768@ee.rochester.edu> rhode@ee.rochester.edu (Robert Rhode) writes:
- >>I suspect the "world's Fastest" title has something to do with the
- >>fact that Alpha has a nosebleed-fast clock (150 MHz sound right?) AND
- >>low CPI. With a GaAs implementation on the way, I think they can count
- >>on holding the title for a while.
- >
- >I don't want to in any way imply that I know what I am talking about or that
- >I have a favorite. There are many issues in real-world performance (i.e.
- >like how optimized for the platform are the applications you would use,
- >what percentage of time is spent in the user interface versus in system
- >services, etc.) that these benchmarks don't cover.
- >
- >That said, I watched the HP announcement, which happened later in the day
- >after the DEC announcement, and HP claimed that their benchmarks were *all*
- >faster than the DEC benchmarks (2-D, 3-D, shaded graphics; SPECfp, MFLOPS;
- >integer performance; etc.)...
-
- I have the numbers in front of me, but I am not sure I can post them
- to the net. Speaking of specmarks, DEC's high-end (200Mhz) appears to be
- ~25% faster than that of HP's. Not exactly an earth-shattering event,
- especially considering that DEC did not release graphics-related
- performance benchmarks for ALPHA... In a word, I expected more from ALPHA.
-
- That said, SUN has the slowest workstations on the market, yet they ship
- more boxes than either of the above.
-
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