Petz - Re: "Ali predicted SDRAM would have negligible impact and it WAS negligible, 1-2%. "
Ali was absolutely wrong !
Why in the world did every major PC manufacturer switch to more expensive SDRAM over EDO ram?
For a 2% Speed improvement?
If your only source of "data" is Tom Uberclockermeister, you need to expand beyond the realm of computer hacks for your information.
Paul
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IBM IntelliStation Smashes NT Workstation
Performance Records; Latest Performance
Benchmarks Beat HP By Nearly 20%, Compaq by
53%
Business Wire - June 01, 1998 10:22
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 1, 1998--IBM(Note
A) today announced that the award-winning IBM IntelliStation(Note A) M Pro, has set new performance records for Windows NT(Note B) based workstations.
The IntelliStation M Pro achieved a record breaking BAPCo SYSmark Score of 407(1), beating Hewlett Packard's Kayak XU by 19.7%. BAPCo's SYSmark is an industry standard tool for measuring the overall performance of Computers running business, technical and graphics-intensive applications in a Windows NT environment.
In addition, the IntelliStation M Pro established a new mark for 3D OpenGL graphics by breaking below the elusive $100 per CDRS composite barrier, with a value score of $85/CDRS (2) easily beating the Compaq Workstation 6000 at $151/CDRS and HP Kayak XW at $114/CDRS. The IBM IntelliStation M Pro also outperformed HP's Kayak XW by an average of 28% and the Compaq Workstation 6000 by 53% on the
OpenGL Performance Characterization (OPC) Viewperf benchmarks (3). Viewperf measures 3D graphics performance, lighting and texture capabilities critical to users designing, analyzing or animating 3D models. Some of the 3D intensive applications supported by the IntelliStation M Pro include: Pro Engineer and Pro/Mechanica,
I-DEAS MasterSeries, Unigraphics, Alias/Wavefront's Maya, 3D Studio Max, Strata Studio Pro, and SoftImage 3D.
"The IBM IntelliStation M Pro delivers the highest level of application performance
and availability possible, enhancing the technical and creative process for computer
graphics users," said Dr. Satish Gupta, general manager, IBM Professional
Workstations. "The IntelliStation M Pro has no equal in the Windows NT workstation
market when it comes to performance, breadth of applications supported or
innovative manageability features that address the cost of ownership."
The new IBM IntelliStation M Pro's SMP enabled design is fueled by 400 MHz (4)
Pentium(Note C) II microprocessors, up to 1 GB (5) of 100 MHz ECC SDRAM
memory, Intel's 440 BX chipset with AGP 2X (accelerated graphics port) and 100
MHz front side bus. High performance 2D and 3D graphics accelerators coupled
with RAID 0 or 1 enabled 7,200 and 10,000rpm disk drives round out the system
configuration.
Estimated reseller prices start at $2,499 (6) (without monitor), depending on the
model and configuration.
Working in tandem with leading application vendors, the IBM IntelliStation M Pro has
been tested for compatibility with over 100 business critical, mechanical design and
engineering, electrical design, financial services, software engineering,
geographical mapping systems, animation, video editing, desktop publishing and
statistical analysis applications.
Through the IntelliStation and RS/6000(Note A) lines, IBM offers one of the broadest
workstation lines in the industry. Visit IBM IntelliStation at:
www.pc.ibm.com/us/intellistation
(Note A) Trademark or registered trademark of International Business Machines.
(Note B) Trademark or registered trademark of Microsoft. (Note C) Trademark or
registered trademark of Intel.
All other product names and titles are the trademarks or registered trademarks of
their respective companies
' (1) BAPCO (www.bapco.com) Results from 5/19/98 test. Configuration: dual
Pentium II 400MHz, 128MB SDRAM, dual 9.1GB 10,000rpm Wide Ultra SCSI disk
drives in RAID array, Matrox Millennium II graphics accelerator with 8MB WRAM.
(2) CDRS-03 (www.specbench.org/gpc) Date submitted: 5/98 Configuration:
Pentium II 400MHz, 64MB SDRAM, Intergraph Intense 3D 3400 with geometry
accelerator, 4.2GB Disk Drive, 17" SVGA Monitor (15.7" viewable image size)
Price: $9,700 (Estimated Reseller Price on 04/15/98) CDRS-03 results: 115.95
frames per second
(3) Viewperf tests dated 5/28/98. (www.hp.com and
www.pc.ibm.com/us/intellistation)
CDRS-03 115.95
DX-03 19.45
DRV-04(Note A) 13.75
Lightscape 1.53
Advanced Visualiser 26.18 Tested configuration: Pentium II 400MHz, 64MB
SDRAM, Intergraph Intense 3D 3400 with geometry accelerator, 4.2GB Disk Drive,
G70 17" SVGA Monitor DRV-04 configuration included dual 400 MHZ
microprocessors.
(4) MHz only measures microprocessor internal clock speed, not application
performance; many factors affect application performance
(5) GB equals one billion bytes when referring to hard disk space. Accessible
capacity may vary.
(6) Estimated reseller prices. Resellers set their own prices, so actual prices may
vary.
CONTACT: IBM, Research Triangle Park
Ray Gorman, 919/254-7037
e-mail: rgorman@us.ibm.com
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