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From: linley@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (Linley Gwennap)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: SPECmarks/MHz (was Re: More Snake bytes.)
Message-ID: <32580014@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com>
Date: 2 Apr 91 00:58:44 GMT
References: <2004@kuling.UUCP>
Organization: PA-RISC Marketing Central
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DISCLAIMER:  I have nothing to do with HP's marketing of the Series 700.
I personally hate the use of MIPS as a performance measurement.  Particularly
in 12" high digits in the Wall Street Journal.

But I wouldn't hesitate to use $/SPECint as a performance measure, although
I would assume that most workstation users are doing at least some floating
point, or else they would be using PCs :-).  Anyway, here is an amendment
to Bo's table.  I hope I have the SPECint numbers right....

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           The HP 720:  How It Stacks Up

COMPANY/PRODUCT     PRICE       SPEC    SPEC    Price Per   Price Per
                                int     marks   SPECint     SPECmark

Hewlett-Packard/    $12,000     39      55.5    $308        $216
HP 9000 Model 720

IBM/                $9,725      16.3    24.6    $597        $395
RISC System/6000
Model 320

Digital Equipment/  $12,500     20.5    19.9    $610        $628
DECstation 5000
Model 200 MX

Sun Microsystems/   $15,000     20.2    21      $743        $714
SPARCstation 2
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John's right; the DECstation is about as good as the RS/6000 for
integer-only workloads.  The Series 700 is only twice as good.

						--Linley Gwennap
						  Hewlett-Packard