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To: Paul Engel who wrote (57439)	6/7/1998 3:58:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

<The FPU performance of the Intel Pentium II is definitely behind the other chips, but the integer performance is quite competitive.> My observation also. The Pentium II at 400mhz is less than 2% behind the fastest systems in integer performance, and this was WITHOUT fullspeed backside bus and only 512K L2. As you mentioned 2meg of fullspeed bsb L2 is only weeks away. This could very well move the Pentium II into first place SPECint95 performance! Remember the days when the RISC camp was reciting the x86 eulogy? The x86 was dead, can't squeeze any more performance from that old antiquated architecture. Over the last few years, the x86 has increased integer performance at a faster rate than any other CPU architecture. Still no end in site. So much for RISC superiority. Now if we could only get those FPU numbers up... Notice this quote about the UltraSparc II with 4Meg of L2 <Even with all this firepower, though, the integer performance of the dual-processored Ultra 60 is only marginally higher than a single 400MHz Pentium II with a SPECint95 rating of 16.1. Prices for the Ultra 60 range start at $US14,000.> I have seen fully loaded 400mhz PII's for ~$2500.