From: farrow@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (J. Scott Farrow) Subject: Re: Intel, the Pentium and Linux Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 18:31:55 GMT
root@fab4box.wa.com (Art Taylor) writes:
>>In <1993Apr21.131307.18788@microware.com> adam@microware.com (Adam Goldberg) writes:
>>
>>>Aha! There's the problem--you're comparing against a 486. The
>>>Pentium FPU is slow _when_compared_to_other_64-bit_processors (Alpha,
>>>for instance).
>Actually, the Pentium(in _Integer_ performance) is about as fast as an Alpha
>chip of twice the clock speed(ie, 66 == 125 MHz)
The latest PC Magazine says that the Alpha 21064 is "claimed" to be 15%
faster than the Pentium in integer operations, and 120% faster in floating
point ops. (April 27th, p 139). That's for a 150Mhz Alpha chip, and there are
faster versions available.
Frankly, I wasn't impressed at all after reading the reviews on the Pentium.
Both DEC and MIPS/SGI have it beat with the 21064 and the R4000 chips.
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