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From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen)
Subject: 386/486 SPECmarks (was: 286/386 clock frequencies, ...)
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Date: Sat, 3 Nov 90 19:16:13 GMT
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bill davidsen <davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com> writes:
> Note that the 486 is about 2.6 times faster than the 386 for most
> things, because the clock counts for almost all instructions have been
> reduced.

I keep seeing a wide variance in the 486/386 speed ratio: from about 3x
all the way down to about 1.5x (in PCMag benchmarks).  Have 386 and 486
machines been SPECmarked?  If so, how can I find out which manufacturers'
machines, and what the results were?

Thanks in advance...

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