Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call

Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-23T22:56:55Z

> 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 -

Got anything more real-world than SPECint type microbenchmarks?

M.