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To: Scumbria who wrote (120963)	12/6/2000 7:42:44 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) of 186894

Scumbria, a SPEC blast from the past. From EBN June 11, 1999, a report on Dirk Meyer's presentation which I believe you attended: ebnews.com Meyer compared 550-MHz and 600-MHz versions of its K7 microprocessor with 512 Kbytes of level 2 cache running at half of the microprocessor's frequency, with Intel's 550-MHz Pentium III Xeon also equipped with 512 Kbytes of cache, but running at the full speed of the microprocessor. Meyer presented test results, displayed as a percentage of the Xeon's performance. Both chips were optimized for their respective instruction sets: Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) for Intel's chips, and the enhanced 3DNow! instruction set for AMD. The two K7s produced processed integers 5% and 15% faster than the Xeon, using the SPECint benchmark. In floating point calculations, used extensively in multimedia applications -- an area where competitors have had difficulty keeping up with Intel -- the 550-MHz and 600-MHz K7 outperformed the Xeon by 35% and 40%, respectively, using the SPECfp measurement. Funny how SPEC strangely becomes irrelevant once Intel dominates in the benchmark. Tenchusatsu

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