Re: CCL:CCL:Is SGI O2/150 much faster than PII/233?

 I don't know about any specific comparisons between the R5000 or
 R10000 in an O2 and the PII or AMD-K6-2, but...
 It is important to remember increasingly, system components other than
 the CPU can strongly effect the performance for "real" applications.
 With memory busses at 66 or 100 MHz, it can be quite hard to feed the
 CPU fast enough to get the peak performance, unless everything is
 coming out of cache.  And the utility of the cache will depend
 strongly on the applications and algorithms involved.
 Balance may be more important than raw CPU performance.
 On Mon, 22 Jun 1998 22:05:20 +0400 (MSD)  Eugene Leitl wrote:
 > Yubo Fan writes:
 >
 >  > Recently, someone told me that SGI O2/150 workstation could run G94
 much
 >  > faster than G94W run on PII/233? Is it true?  Could you please give
 some
 >  > advice?
 >
 > [...] The AMD-K6-2/333 has a peak floating point performance of
 > 1.333 Gigaflops...
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