Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site houligan.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!petsd!peora!ucf-cs!novavax!houligan!daemon From: daemon@houligan.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sources,net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Re: More Benchmarks Message-ID: <202@houligan.UUCP> Date: Tue, 26-Nov-85 14:39:54 EST Article-I.D.: houligan.202 Posted: Tue Nov 26 14:39:54 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 28-Nov-85 08:04:26 EST Sender: daemon@houligan.UUCP Organization: Gould Electronics, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Lines: 72 Xref: watmath net.sources:3915 net.unix-wizards:15878 > We upgraded one of our Silicon Graphics IRIS 2400's to the "Turbo" > (68020 processor) this week, so I decided to do some benchmarking of it > against the older 68010 processor. > > When I tried the Dhrystone benchmark, I found that the number being > computed is actually iterations divided by execution time in seconds. > Since this time is only accurate to plus or minus one second, numbers > for machines like the Sun 3 (at 3500) may have errors of 7%. > To get better accuracy, I changed the #define LOOPS from 50000 to > 200000 for the 2400 and to 500000 for the 2400T. > > It's apparent that the results for the Sun 3 are no fluke, and that > the 68020 is a pretty respectable processor. Of course, this particular > benchmark may be unusually favourable to this chip. > > Below are all of the results that I could find posted, merged into > a single table. > > Since this isn't a program source, it doesn't really belong in net.sources. > I've added a Followup-to header that will redirect followups to > net.unix-wizards, which is at least a bit better suited to this. > > * MACHINE PROCESSOR OPERATING COMPILER DHRYSTONES/SEC. > * TYPE SYSTEM NO REG REGS > * -------------------------- ------------ ----------- --------------- > * IBM PC/XT 8088-4.77Mhz VENIX/86 2.0 cc 297 324 > * Cosmos 68000-8Mhz UniSoft cc 305 322 > * IBM PC/XT 8086-4.54Mhz PCDOS 3.1 Lattice 2.15 373 - @ > * IBM PC/XT 8088-4.77Mhz PCDOS 2.1 Lattice 2.15 403 - @ > * ATT PC6300 8086-8Mhz MSDOS 2.11 b16cc 2.0 632 684 > * IBM PC/AT 80286-6Mhz PCDOS 3.0 CI-C86 2.1 666 684 > * Macintosh 68000-7.7Mhz - MegaMax C 2.0 661 709 > * ATT PC6300 8086-8Mhz MSDOS 2.11 CI-C86 2.20M 769 769 > * IBM PC/AT 80286-6Mhz PCDOS 3.0 CI-C86 2.1 666 684 > * Macintosh 68000-7.8Mhz 2M Mac Rom Mac C 32 bit int 694 704 > * IBM PC/XT 8086-9.54Mhz PCDOS 3.1 Microsoft 3.0 724 781 > * ATT 3B2/300 MAC32-?Mhz UNIX 5.0.2 cc 735 806 > * NEC PC9801F 8086-8Mhz PCDOS 2.11 Lattice 2.15 768 - @ > * ATT PC6300 8086-8Mhz MSDOS 2.11 CI-C86 2.20M 769 769 > * IRIS 2400 68010-10 MHz Sys5 #5 cc 772 829 > * IBM PC/XT 8086-9.54Mhz PCDOS 3.1 Microsoft 3.0 819 877 > * Fast Mac 68000-7.7Mhz - MegaMax C 2.0 839 904 + > * IBM PC/AT 80286-6Mhz VENIX/86 2.1 cc 961 1000 > * VAX 11/750 - Unix 4.2bsd cc 862 877 > * Macintosh 68000-7.8Mhz 2M Mac Rom Mac C 16 bit int 877 909 > * IBM PC/XT 8086-9.54Mhz PCDOS 3.1 Wizard 2.1 877 980 > * VAX 11/750 - VMS VAX-11 C 2.0 958 1091 > * IBM PC/AT 80286-6Mhz VENIX/86 2.1 cc 961 1000 > * IBM PC/XT 8086-9.54Mhz PCDOS 3.1 Lattice 2.15 980 - @ > * ATT PC7300 68010-10Mhz UNIX 5.2 cc 1041 1111 > * IBM PC/AT 80286-6Mhz PCDOS 3.1 Microsoft 3.0 1063 1086 > * Sun2/120 68010-10Mhz Sun 4.2BSD cc 1136 1219 > * PDP 11/70 - UNIX 5.2 cc 1162 1250 > * IBM PC/AT 80286-7.5Mhz VENIX/86 2.1 cc 1190 1315 * > * IBM PC/AT 80286-6Mhz PCDOS 3.1 Lattice 2.15 1250 - @ > * VAX 11/780 - UNIX 5.2 cc 1515 1562 > * ATT 3B20 - UNIX 5.2 cc 1515 1724 > * uVAX-II - ? ? 1574 1582 > * Gould PN6005 - UTX 1.1(4.2BSD) cc 1675 1964 > * HP9000-500 B series CPU HP-UX 4.02 cc 1724 - > * DEC2060 KL-10 TOPS-20 cc(&) 2000 ---- > * Pyramid 90x - OSx 2.5 cc 3125 3125 > * IRIS 2400T 68020-16.67MHz Sys5 #14 cc 3105 3401 > * SUN 3/75 68020-16.67Mhz SUN 4.2 V3 cc 3333 3571 > * VAX 8600 - 4.3BSD cc 7092 7153 > * Amdahl 580 - UTS 5.0 Rel 1.2 cc Ver. 1.5 23076 23076 > * > * * 15Mhz crystal substituted for original 12Mhz; > * @ vanilla Lattice compiler used with MicroPro standard library > * + This Macintosh was upgraded from 128K to 512K in such a way that > * the new 384K of memory is not slowed down by video generator accesses. > * & A version 7 C compiler written at New Mexico Tech.