grenley@nsc.nsc.com (George Grenley) (10/25/88)
I fear we have established yet another meaningless b'mark comparison, the AirBorne! rating.... 8-) In article <6438@winchester.mips.COM> mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey) writes: >>>Can you say "F-15 vs. a hot air balloon"? Well, I guess I'm biased ;-) >>Ok, it the NSC chips are "an F-15" the the 68xxx part gotta be >>at least "a prop-jet" ... The Intel lineup are "bi-planes" >>... Maybe my TI-58 would be "a hot air balloon" >>Any benchmark comparisons between the 88000 and the newest '532 ?? >34K Dhrystones is the published number for the 88K, although >that uses an unspecified cache size [almost irrelevant, since it fits >in small caches], clock rate [relevant; we think this number is what >25MHz parts would be, but maybe they're for a well-tuned 20MHz one], >and memory system [somewhat important, although not very, with a writeback >cache]. As I recall, 532s are about half that, although I could be >wrong, as I don't track them closely. This is about right, depending on which test conditions you specify... Our 30 meg part is around 17K... >Just to extend the analogy, note that if 532's are F-15s, there are >a number of people flying in Lockheed Blackirds [MIPS R3000s], already >[20 VUPS @ 25MHz, 42K Dhrystones.] Oh yeah? Well, our NEXT cpu will be the Space Shuttle!!! (whoops, that might not be a good analogy, challenger...) >-john mashey DISCLAIMER: <generic disclaimer, I speak for me only, etc> >UUCP: {ames,decwrl,prls,pyramid}!mips!mash OR mash@mips.com >DDD: 408-991-0253 or 408-720-1700, x253 >USPS: MIPS Computer Systems, 930 E. Arques, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 George Grenley Test-Pilot-at-Large
dlr@daver.UUCP (Dave Rand) (10/25/88)
In article <7275@nsc.nsc.com> grenley@nsc.nsc.com.UUCP (George Grenley) writes: > [ dhrystone benchmarking stuff] >This is about right, depending on which test conditions you specify... >Our 30 meg part is around 17K... > I get 18,335... Dave Rand -- Dave Rand {pyramid|hoptoad|sun|vsi1}!daver!dlr