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From: earl@wright.mips.com (Earl Killian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Workstation speed comparisons
Keywords: price, performance, MIPS
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Date: 17 Oct 89 17:50:43 GMT
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In-reply-to: jdm@boulder.Colorado.EDU (James D. Meiss)

In article <12850@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, jdm@boulder (James D. Meiss) writes:
>	DataGeneral Aviion 
>                      (88000,16.7MHz)	17MIPs/$8K = 	2.1
>	DecStation 3100 (MIPS, 16.7)	14MIPS/$12K = 	1.2
>	Sun SPARC (SPARC, ?)		12MIPS/$10K = 	1.2
>	Iris  ( , )			
>	MacIIci (68030, 16.7)			
>	MacIIx (68030, 12)		4MIPS/$8K = 	0.5
>	Apollo 4500 ( , )		7MIPS/$19K =	0.4
>
>	These numbers come from 2/27/89 Electronic Engineering times
>and ComputerWorld. 

Several of these "MIPS ratings" are based on the dhrystone benchmark.
That makes this a pretty meaningless table.

To give you an idea, take the DECstation 3100, which is listed above
as 14 MIPS, and the DG Aviion, which is listed as 17.  Then look the
machines on a set of real application programs, such as the SPEC
benchmarks.  The DECstation 3100 is 10.1 SPECmarks.  The Aviion wasn't
included in the SPEC report, but the the Motorola Delta 8608, which
contains a 20MHz 88100 (i.e. same micro at a higher clock), is 7.8
SPECmarks.
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