On Jan 5, 2012, at 5:48 PM, Graham Harris <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Intel Core i7 at 177,730 MIPs/sec >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second >> >> or almost 180BIPs/sec ... which makes i7 equivalent of more than three >> z196?? > > > Interesting to read the cited reference against the claimed 180BIPS/sec > (/sec ??!!).... > > Synthetic Benchmarks > > Synthetic benchmarks.....are.... well....synthetic and do not get your work > done for you. These don't necessarily mean anything when it comes to > desktop performance in real life, but certainly there is value to be > gleaned from these by enthusiasts. These are also the easiest benchmarks to > run when it comes to seeing if your system at home is measuring True enough. Nevertheless it would be unwise to conclude that said processors are not actually capable of delivering work in the "Real World(tm)". There's no telling what the absolute performance will be in any given situation, but those i7 CPUs have more than enough horsepower for most things you would ever want to do - even in a server configuration. We aren't talking about old fashioned PC weenies here. These things rock. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
