Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call

David Mosberger
2003-02-23T22:30:35Z

>>>>> On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 13:34:32 -0800 (PST), Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> said:

Linus> Last I saw P4 was kicking ia-64 butt on specint and friends.

I don't think so. According to Intel [1], the highest clockfrequency
for a 0.18um part is 2GHz (both for Xeon and P4, for Xeon MP it's
1.5GHz). The highest reported SPECint for a 2GHz Xeon seems to be 701
[2]. In comparison, a 1GHz McKinley gets a SPECint of 810 [3].

--david

[1] http://www.intel.com/support/processors/xeon/corespeeds.htm
[2] http://www.specbench.org/cpu2000/results/res2002q1/cpu2000-20020128-01232.html
[3] http://www.specbench.org/cpu2000/results/res2002q3/cpu2000-20020711-01469.html