From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue May 14 13:30: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2894B37B400 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 13:29:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA10183; Tue, 14 May 2002 16:29:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g4EKTOo18567; Tue, 14 May 2002 16:29:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15585.29604.107299.259275@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 16:29:24 -0400 (EDT) To: Gorm Jorgensen Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha CPU Performance vs i386 In-Reply-To: <20020514201923.GK37326@Area51.DK> References: <20020514201923.GK37326@Area51.DK> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Gorm Jorgensen writes: > > I can't seem to find any specs on how an Alpha 500 MHz is performing vs an > Intel 500MHz. > > Is Alpha faster, slower or generally the same ? Yes. Its generally slower for integer & faster for floating point than x86 hardware of a similar vintage. However, if you want good floating point, you need to use the compaq ccc compiler. > This is difficult I know, cause Intel has Pentium II, III and other sorts - > but just some generally hint might help me. > > I'm just curious to find out if my Miata 500au is better than my Dual PPro > 200 MHz. Since you own the machines, this is easy. Whichever machine is faster for what apps you care about is better. You don't need any benchmarks. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message