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Technology Stocks : Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI)
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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (5796)3/8/1999 6:53:00 AM
From: Alexis Cousein  Read Replies (1) of 14451
 
> SGI did not know sooner that the P3 would give a
> lackluster performance improvement????

For running a spreadsheet, yes. But the PIII, if you have drivers that use the SIMD instructions does help a lot for the non-Cobalt part of the OpenGL pipeline, and for imaging and DirectShow/Quicktime components, even at the same clock speeds. Due to the market focus of these boxes, the PIII is actually more interesting than on an office application box.

For an example, check out

sgi.com

When using an Intel Pentium III 450MHz processor over an Intel Pentium II 450MHz processor, the Silicon Graphics 320 visual workstation posted a 15 to 30 percent benchmark improvement in most GLPerf and ViewPerf dataset benchmarks. The Pentium III 500MHz processor has delivered approximately 10 percent additional performance on top of this result.

If you have an applications for which OpenGL operations are CPU-bound with a Cobalt chipset, 40% is nothing to sneer at.
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