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- From: haberman@s22.msi.umn.edu (Joe Habermann)
- Subject: Re: Performance of Sparc Classic?
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- References: <phoenix.727660358@well.sf.ca.us> <1jpqbuINNdsh@pawnee.telecom.ksu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 00:32:20 GMT
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- jerry@pawnee.telecom.ksu.edu (Jerry Anderson) writes:
-
- >phoenix@well.sf.ca.us (Benjamin McLemore) writes:
- >
- >> I am interested in knowing how the performance of the new Sparc Classic
- >> compares with that of other Sun workstations. The only Sun I have
- >> used is a SparcStation 2. A price of $4295 would seem to indicate that
- >> some corners had been cut-- is the consensus that this is not true?
- >
- >Performance specs from January 1993 Florida SunFlash, Vol 49 #15:
- >
- > Machine SPECint92 SPECfp92
- > ---------------- --------- --------
- > SPARCstation LX 26.4 21.0
- > SPARCclassic 26.4 21.0
- > SPARCstation 2 21.8 22.8
- > SPARCstation IPX 21.8 21.5
- > SPARCstation ELC 18.2 17.9
- > SPARCstation IPC 13.8 11.1
- >
- > Machine SPECmark89
- > ---------------- ----------
- > SPARCstation 1+ 12
- > SPARCstation 1 10
- > SPARCstation SLC 8.6
- >
- >Generally speaking, the integer processing benchmarks (SPECint92)
- >are probably a better indicator of useful speed than the
- >floating-point benchmarks (SPECfp92), unless you're doing a lot
- >of scientific calculations or other floating-point processing.
- >
- >--
- >jerry@telecom.ksu.edu Jerry Anderson
- > Kansas State University
- >vox: (913) 532-6936 Telecommunications
- >fax: (913) 532-7114 Manhattan KS 66506
-
- When Sun dropped the price on the IPX a while back, we wondering
- why anyone would buy a Sparc 2 over an IPX. The only thing I could
- come up with was that the Sparc 2 had 12 hardware contexts vs. 6
- for the IPX and the Sparc 2 could could take a larger variety of
- SBUS cards. Both we're irrelevant to us, so we went with the IPX.
- I don't know exactly what the specs are for the Classic/LX line,
- but these might be something to consider.
-
- Joe Habermann
- MSI Technical Support, University of Minnesota
-