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Benchmark comparisons 65 CPUs, 100mhz to 3066mhz
cahult:
Who believes in benchmarks anyway? I cannot say if I believe in them or not, this is not my field so I
Fett101:
quote:Originally posted by cahult:
Who believes in benchmarks anyway? I cannot say if I believe in them or not, this is not my field so I
LocNar:
While on the topic of benchmarks... Does anyone here have experience with ALPHA or SPARC systems? A few years ago, I wrote a C program to distinguish between knots (input as an ordered list of coordinates of the vertices of a polygonal path). I ran the program on an SGI (don't remember what model.) Anyway, it took anywhere from a fraction of a second (for a simple overhand knot) to 15 minutes (for a knot with about 500 crossings). I did this for a research project at a university, using their equipment. Now, I'm interested in playing with the program again. My question is, does anyone have up-to-date benchmarks comparing recent SPARCS, ALPHAS, SGIs, intels, motorolas?
I did a little research on the web and found some info (a little outdated) that compared older SPARC's with Pentium III's. The benches said that for integer calculations, equivalent CPU speeds produced equivalent computation times. But, the 64-bit machines ran about 1.5 times as fast as the intels using floating-point calculations.
I'm considering picking up an older machine (Sun SPARC 5 or 20) from ebay. Will it outperform my shiny new AMD 1900+ with 512 MB memory? I suspect not. What about newer SUN's?
Thanks.
choasforages:
depends on what you are doing, if you are messing with calculations and such, the amd chip would probably win, but if you are slinging data around the sun has a better chance. its too bad somebody doesn't pick up the alpha torch and burn the house of intel down with it. by putting it behind the nforce chipset, or the kt400. i think i heard a rumor about the kt series of processers. owell, the spirit of the alpha lives on in the athlon series of processers. quite literally actally, amd licensed the architecture to get smp working from what i heard
mattymanx:
quote:At 2.6 frames per second, Unreal Tournament 2003 looks like a slide show on our Pentium 100
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Interesting stuff there.
funny too!
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