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From: daugher@cs.tamu.edu (Walter C. Daugherity)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: More NeXT Info Please
Keywords: benchmarks, NeXT, Dhrystones
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Date: 30 Oct 90 20:27:17 GMT
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From: uunet.uu.net!cbmvax!cgh!paul (Paul Homchick)
Paul Homchick (cgh!paul@dsi.com) advises:

>1 Dhrystone MIPS is how many dhrystone/s the VAX 11/750 does.  It does
>something like 1574.  So the NeXT is 15*1574, which is around 23000.

Based on InfoWorld (Oct. 29, 1990):

For comparison, a 25-MHz 486 comes in at 20 Dhrystone MIPS and an IBM
RS/6000 Model 320 is 27 Dhrystone MIPS. It's easy to slant the results,
though, by handcoding, running entirely in cache with no misses or
main memory accesses, or even writing compilers to produce the fastest
sequence of operations for the benchmark programs.  Consequently Spec, Inc.,
was set up to establish a vendor-independent benchmark, the Specmark.

Here are some Specmarks:

Sun SparcStation SLC	 7.6
Compaq Deskpro 486/25	 8.7
Sun SparcStation 1+	10.0
Sun SparcStation IPC	10.0
Solbourne S4000		12.0
IBM RS/6000 Model 320	22.3
IBM RS/6000 Model 530	28.9

Does anyone have the Specmark rating for the 68030 and 68040 NeXT's?

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