byu@csri.toronto.edu (Benjamin Yu) (05/23/91)
I want to find out how many mips are the 386's running at. A number of dealers told me their 33 Mz machine runs at about 7 to 8 mips. When I go to the stores and run the mips program from Chips and Technology, it only shows actual MIPS to be around 4.7. Does anyone have a clue who is lying: the dealer or the program?? Benjamin Yu
ian@rathe.cs.umn.edu (Ian Hogg) (05/24/91)
In article <1991May23.105137.294@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> byu@csri.toronto.edu (Benjamin Yu) writes: >I want to find out how many mips are the 386's running at. A number of >dealers told me their 33 Mz machine runs at about 7 to 8 mips. When I go >to the stores and run the mips program from Chips and Technology, it only >shows actual MIPS to be around 4.7. Does anyone have a clue who is lying: >the dealer or the program?? > > >Benjamin Yu I see this on my 33Mhz (supposedly 8 MIPS) 386. What I suspect is happening is the MIPS test gives a value of 7-8 MIPS for register to register operations (I think that's the test anyways). What it appears to me is the classic case of vendors reporting "peak" performance. -- Ian Hogg email: rathe!ian@cs.umn.edu ...!umn-cs!rathe!ian Rathe, Inc ianhogg@cs.umn.edu 366 Jackson Street phone: (612) 225-1401
aris@tabbs.UUCP (Aris Stathakis) (05/27/91)
In <1991May24.125642.13818@rathe.cs.umn.edu> ian@rathe.cs.umn.edu (Ian Hogg) writes: >In article <1991May23.105137.294@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> byu@csri.toronto.edu (Benjamin Yu) writes: >>I want to find out how many mips are the 386's running at. A number of >>dealers told me their 33 Mz machine runs at about 7 to 8 mips. When I go >>to the stores and run the mips program from Chips and Technology, it only >>shows actual MIPS to be around 4.7. Does anyone have a clue who is lying: >>the dealer or the program?? > I see this on my 33Mhz (supposedly 8 MIPS) 386. What I suspect is happening >is the MIPS test gives a value of 7-8 MIPS for register to register operations >(I think that's the test anyways). What it appears to me is the classic case >of vendors reporting "peak" performance. What I think the problem is that PC dealers use "Power Meter" instead of the Chips and Technologies mips program. Power meter always seems to give a more favorable reading :-) Aris -- Aris Stathakis | Bang: ..!uunet!ddsw1!olsa99!tabbs!aris or aris@tabbs.UUCP - - ------------------------- Sex, dope, UNIX! -------------------------------
gtephx (Wild Rider) (05/29/91)
In article <1991May23.105137.294@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> byu@csri.toronto.edu (Benjamin Yu) writes: >I want to find out how many mips are the 386's running at. A number of >dealers told me their 33 Mz machine runs at about 7 to 8 mips. When I go >to the stores and run the mips program from Chips and Technology, it only >shows actual MIPS to be around 4.7. Does anyone have a clue who is lying: >the dealer or the program?? think real hard... who has a stake in "stretching the truth" here? who would just love to get his hands on your wallet, hmmm? surely canadian sales-slugs are no less slimy than those down here in the usa? a friend of mine used to sell cars for a living; he told me that in sales meetings they were _explicitly_ instructed to "tell the customer whatever he wants to hear" to make the sale. how can you tell when a sales-slug is lying? its lips are moving. remember, if it sells something, it's a sales-slug. > >Benjamin Yu cheers, wr (wild rider) -- Wallace Roberts, AG (formerly GTE) Communication Systems, Phoenix, AZ UUCP: ...!{ncar!noao!asuvax | uunet!zardoz!hrc | att}!gtephx!robertsw Internet: gtephx!robertsw@asuvax.eas.asu.edu Bike: '82 GS1100L Suz voice: (602)581-4555 fax: (602)582-7624 Cage: '89 Mustang GT