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From: johnr@ogccse.ogc.edu (John Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Criteria for comparing RISC processors
Keywords: RISC
Message-ID: <2368@ogccse.ogc.edu>
Date: 15 Apr 89 17:54:08 GMT
Organization: Oregon Graduate Center, Beaverton, OR
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I'm interested in evaluation of the current crop of RISC processors based
on some common criteria.  Here's the list of RISC processors I know about
(feel free to add more):

	AMD 29000
	Intel i860
	Motorola 88000
	MIPS R3000
	Sun/Cypress SPARC
	VLSI Technology VL86C010
	Intergraph Clipper

Here's the criteria I currently use:

	clock speed
	transister count
	on-chip floating point unit? (and/or MFlops of FPU)
	pipelined execution
	on-chip caches

I'd be interested in what criteria other silicon-groupies use for evaluating
CPUs (especially as it relates to RISC).

John Roberts
"hanging out at Cogent Research, Inc. and Oregon Graduate Center"
johnr@ogccse.ogc.edu