[comp.arch] Benchmark figures of MIPS6000/6010?

gsg0384@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (06/08/90)

Hi,

Do you have any benchmark figures for MIPS 6000 cpu and the 6010 fpu?

I was told that the new machine from DEC will be based on these chips, and 
that Bull has already announced a machine with this chip. Any more information
on these new machines?  Price information is also wanted.

Thanks a lot for the information.

cprice@mips.COM (Charlie Price) (06/09/90)

In article <47100002@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> gsg0384@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>Hi,
>
>Do you have any benchmark figures for MIPS 6000 cpu and the 6010 fpu?
>
>I was told that the new machine from DEC will be based on these chips, and 
>that Bull has already announced a machine with this chip. Any more information
>on these new machines?  Price information is also wanted.
>
>Thanks a lot for the information.

I have the SPEC numbers for a MIPS RC6280 based on the R6000 CPU.
Fortunately, I don't know more than epsilon about any other vendor's
plans for using the ECL parts so I don't have to stifle myself
when I say I don't know anything.

Remember that these results are for one implementation
of cache, system interconnect (in this case, a bus), and memory.
These factors STRONGLY affect the performance you see.

Here are SPEC numbers for BETA RC6280 systems at 60 MHz.
These were published in the SPEC Spring Results Newsletter.
The BETA unit is not peculiar, it has the same clock rate,
cache size, and cache speed as the FCS unit so the performance
should be essentially the same as an FCS unit.

The BETA machine for this test has:
CPU:		MIPS R6000, Rev. 2.4, 60 MHz
FPU:		MIPS R6010, Rev. 2.1, 60 MHz
Number of CPUs:	1
Cache Size:	 16 KB primary data cache
		 64 KB primary instruction cache
		512 KB secondary cache
Memory:		32 MB
Disk System:	SMD

O/S:		RISC/os 4.50 Beta
Compilers:	CC & F77  Release 2.10 Beta

Tuning Parameters:  none in use
Background load:    none
System State:       multi-user, single user logged on

Notes:
All programs compiled "-O3" except 001 and 013 which used "-O2".
All programs compiled with "-Olimit 2000 -mips2 -Wab -mips2rev210"

For comparison, I have included the SPEC numbers
from another MIPS box, the M/2000, a 25 MHz R3000-based system.
This has 64KB instruction cache, 64KB data cache,
32 MB memory, compilers were 2.10 Beta.
These figures taken Dec. 89.

As a reminder, *'d ones are the integer ones.

001*	008*	013	015	020	022*	023*	030	042	047  SY	
gcc	esp	spic	doduc	nasa	li	eqn	matrx	fpp	tom  
44.5	43.7	37.7	38.3	39.6	44.9	35.6	52.4	52.2	36.8  1
19.1	18.2	12.1	17.6	18.4	23.8	18.3	13.3	20.4	17.7  2

SPEC integer	SPEC Float	SPECmark	Systems
42.0		42.3		42.2		1 - BETA RC6280 @ 60MHz (R6000)
19.7		16.3		17.6		2 - MIPS M/2000 @ 25MHz (R3000)
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