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To: Elmer who wrote (66850)	7/29/1999 9:44:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr	Respond to of 1576881

Elmer - RE: "The 667 MHz Alpha is there and posts 32.1 on SPECInt95. That places it behind HP which comes in at 34.0" I see you are focusing on SPECInt these days.

To: Elmer who wrote (66850)	7/30/1999 4:45:00 PM
From: Rob Young	Respond to of 1576881

Wrong. The 667 MHz Alpha is there and posts 32.1 on SPECInt95. That places it behind HP which comes in at 34.0 specbench.org The 667 MHz Alpha is the first one listed. --- But Elmer .. as we went over in another thread .. the 667 MHz 21264 does much better if it isn't running Bill's Swill... www1.compaq.com!ob~8150_1_1,00.html a fast (222 MHz) 4 MB L2 cache, SPECint/fp 37/67 (est.) for unparalleled computational performance They should be posted in the next 2 weeks. So today, HP does have a lead. That N4000 though is a $60000 box... the XP1000 can be had for less than $8000 but the spec box costs more than that. Interestingly.. with Samsung and IBM coming out with much faster and smaller feature (.18) micron by year-end (IBM copper) see: techweb.com I'm willing to bet Alpha regains the performance crown and doesn't give it up for at least 3 years.. EV7 (21364) is less than a year away and promises 70+ Int, 120+ fp. In we did just a linear ramp from 37/67 at 667 MHz (not a bad approximation for integer scaling) an IBM 1 GHz copper EV68 would do: 55.5 SpecInt95 100.5 SpecFp95 Not a bad part to ring in the new year, eh? Rob

To: Elmer who wrote (66850)	7/31/1999 5:00:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576881

Elmer - "The 667 MHz Alpha is there and posts 32.1 on SPECInt95. That places it behind HP which comes in at 34.0" Since you are focusing on Integer, check out this info (which was already posted by Dan) taken from the German magazine C't heise.de, rewritten in English by Ace's aceshardware.com - "They have that when 700mhz K7 is feed with 2MB full speed offdie caches like the current XEONs it scores a 31 on the specint95 beating even PA-8500's 30.8." According to specbench.org the PA-8500 scores a 30.8 on SPECint_95, so I assume that is the number C't is comparing the Athlon's score to. Yes, there is no such thing as a 700MHz Athlon w/full speed off die cache, but it paints an awesome picture showing what the Athlon is capable of.