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To: Steve Porter who wrote (40764)11/3/1998 9:28:00 PM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1573857
 
Re: "In fact without the 1.5Megs on chip I would be willing to bet that there is likely only a 15% improvement in core performance."

Someone posted 8500 benchmarks here a few days ago. The 8500 is the highest performing processor in the world and even outperforms the 21264.

Alpha 600 Mhz model:21264 SPECint 32 SPECfp 50
HP 330 Mhz model:8500 SPECint 30 SPECfp 50
HP 440 Mhz model:8500 SPECint 32 SPECfp 52

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