Re: PentiumII's.
Mitch Davis (mjd@nsmd.aus.hp.com)
Thu, 31 Jul 1997 14:41:16 +1000
David S. Miller wrote:
>
> You can get published SPEC benchmarks from
> http://www.specbench.org. The Ultra 2 Creator (3D) Model 2200 gets
> 133 SPECint_rate_base95 compared to 158 for the dual Pentium II.
> The Ultra 2 is tested with 256MB RAM vs. 128MB RAM for the dual
> Pentium II. The Ultra 2 uses two 200MHZ UltraSPARC II CPUs and the
> Pentium II uses two 266MHz Pentium II CPUs.
>
> Then compare it to the 300Mhz or 250Mhz UltraSparc2 numbers if
> specbench has any of them. From my experience, for purely crunch
> code, the Ultra2's at 300Mhz can be twice as fast as the 200Mhz
> modules...
I heard a rumour the other day that the "S" in David's name
stands for "SPARC".... :-)
Mitch.