> > > > ... a Dell Precision Workstation 330 system with a 1.4GHz P4 in > >Nov 2000 the SPECint_rate was 5.80. In June 2006, a Dell Precision > >Workstation 390 with a 2.93GHz Intel Core Duo processor was 63.6. > >Obviously one cannot make a direct comparison between MIPS and SPEC rate, > > You are confusing MIPS and MHz. MIPS may be meaningless, but MHz means > far less.
No, I am not. SPECint_rate is a measure of performance, not MHz. I would suggest that MIPS is more meaningless than SPECint_rate, for those who care about integer performance. MIPS applies only to mainframes. Integer performance applies to processors from Sun, IBM, Intel, AMD, etc. In fact, since IBM submits SPECint scores for POWER, I don't think IBM believes it is meaningless. They just don't submit them for mainframe systems (for obvious reasons). Regards, Dean > > -- > Tom Marchant > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
