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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (129881)	12/19/2000 6:30:31 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570343

Re: "AMD finally submitted SPEC scores for the Athlon w/DDR (and no DDR), and they finally had the guts to include int scores!" Yes, AMD has almost caught up with the 1GHz P3 in INT (Dell posted a score of 454 for the P3) and pulled ahead in FP by 10% while clocking at 20% higher frequency. Good scores for AMD. You might want to take a look at the discussion about Foster over on the Intel thread. There might be something very interesting about Foster that Intel's still keeping secret.... Message 15050836 EP

To: Cirruslvr who wrote (129881)	12/19/2000 6:58:14 PM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 1570343

Re: AMD finally submitted SPEC scores for the Athlon And for a discussion of the bogus algorithms SPEC insists on everyone running - unless they want to create an entire compiler to optimize out the bogus code - check out this discussion... WHAT ABOUT SPEC FP 2000. Why the pooor... incredibly poor memory management. Does this have to do with NOT USING OPTIMIZED BLAS. Yes.. the folks at spec in their infinite wisdom have chosen to put the BLAS source in the benchmarks themsleves and then renamed the routines. Dgemm isn't dgemm anymore but something else. This was told to me by one of the people at spec and on the board of spec. Only 2 benchmarks out of the 14 can actually be linked to with external optimzied BLAS binaries. The others.. well you are ... really out of luck. What does this do to perf. Here it is: DGEMM Source Compiled: w3.physics.uiuc.edu ==> ~100 MFLOPS DGEMM OPTIMIZED IN ATLAS(www.netlib.org/atlas/archives IT'S FREE): w3.physics.uiuc.edu ==> 1400 MFLOPS aceshardware.com