Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 10:00:52 -0700 From: Don Wilde <don@PartsNow.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Benchmarks/comparisions between PC->Sparc Message-ID: <33B937C4.148B@PartsNow.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970701121533.20086D-100000@hub.org>
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> Does anyone know of URLs for comparisons between the two? Stuff > like SPECint and anything else that would be pertinent to a discussion of > the merits of either/or? > www.intel.com has SPEC97 numbers for representative machines using Pentium, PPro, (and I suppose P-II now). The key to finding these # is to look at the semiconductor mfr's site for the CPU: Intel or Sun or Ross or Fujitsu as appropriate. Basically, a PPro is very close to a Sparc or HP8000 in INT testing, cache size aside, but floating point is still way behind. If your app is general UNIX stuff, stick with Intel for price and replaceability (and FreeBSD!), but if you must have bleeding edge CAD or visualisation, HP or Sun are still faster. Ask yourself if 2 seats of Dell Poweredge PC's with GLint hardware (still slightly slower) are better than 1 Sun or HP 700 that the same money would buy, and most of us will say yes! -- oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * o ___ _________ _________ ________ _________ _________ ___==_ V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde [don@PartsNow.com] [http://www.PartsNow.com ] /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo--ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo--oo
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