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[Alvin Oga]

hi ya

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Mark Hahn wrote:

> > re. the points on floating point performance, these are valid.
> > But I think we should note the new Nehemiah boards which are just out.
> > Well worth looking at I think - I intend to get one soon, and I'll report
> > back if/when I do.
> > http://www.mini-itx.com/reviews/nehemiah/?page=10#s21
> 
> hmm.  for rhetorical purposes, let's compare the numbers from this article
> to two high-end unis:
> 
> 	dhry	whet	mmi	mmf	memi	memf
> e800	1048	285	963	1588	194	208
> e10k	1300	351	1193	1968	233	245
> e10k-n	1591	366	2255	2285	664	389
> p4	6809	9327	22170	13896	5050	5041	
> ath	3319	8855	13011	12217	2912	3080

I wonder what the specific details was for the aove p4/ath cpus.

For the $$$ difference betwen a p4/amd and c3 ...  it seems
like a non-issue for performance of spending the extra $50 - $100
for better performance in the above benchmark numbers

( but, its a bigger price/performance gap for the lastest FSB-800 cpus 
  and runs $300 - $500 or higher

good stuff in either case ...

have fun
alvin

> I think it's pretty clear that you need to expect much lower
> performance from even the 'high-end' VIA chips.  if your code
> more resembles dhrystone (mostly integer, cache friendly),
> then you can mostly expect to scale with clock speed, and the 
> VIA chips might be attractive on a speed/(heat*cost) basis.
> 
> for general clusters, where memory bandwidth and FP performance
> and integrated gigabit are big advantages, VIA doesn't compete.
> 
> data is from the article above and
> 	http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030521/index.html
> 
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