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To: fyo who wrote (63506)6/26/1999 8:17:00 PM
From: kash johal  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1580134
 
Fyo,

Re:" SPECfp : 23 --> 33.5
SPECint: 25 --> 36.4

As you can see, the K7 (err.. Athlon) may get close in integer, but it won't get ANYWHERE near the PA-RISC in floating point. And I certainly wouldn't call this 'smoking the current top dog'..."

I think you will be surprised at the effects of large amounts of L2 cache on the FPU numbers as well as running the memory system at 266Mhz.

I am not saying it will blow away the top dog but IMHO it will get close.

Maybe it will take the Cu K7's to get there.

Lets wait and see.

Regards,

Kash



To: fyo who wrote (63506)6/26/1999 9:37:00 PM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1580134
 
Re: "Ok, ok, so this isn't the K7 with PC266 DDRDRAM and 8MB full-speed cache (which may be DDRDRAM), but I still don't see how you are going to make up the HUGE gap in floating point performance."

Nor will HP be standing still either.

EP


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