The Microprocessor Report has put Sun Microsystems Inc’s new Sparcstation 10 up against its rivals and measured integer and floating point performance of various Unix workstations against the SPEC92 benchmark suite. The results are measured, not simulated, as reported by the vendors.
Architecture Sparc MIPS R Processor SuperSparc SuperSparc 7C601 R4000 R4000 MIPS Si Gra Systm Sun 10/30 Sun 10/41 Sun-2 Magnum Crimson
Clock 36MHz 40MHz 40MHz 50MHz/ 50MHz/ 100MHz 100MHz
Cache 0+36K 1M+36K 0+64K 0+16K 1M+16K
SPECint92 44.2 52.6 21.8 36.8 61.7
SPECfp92 52.9 64.7 22.8 40.0 63.4
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Architecture Precision Power iAPX-86 Architecture Processor Snakes Snakes RIOS RIOS 80486
IBM RS/6000 System HP710 HP750 340 560 Intel
Clock 66MHz 33MHz 50MHz 50MHz 50MHz
Cache 0+96K 0+512K 0+40K 0+72K 256K+8K
SPECint92 31.6 48.1 27.7 42.0 30.1
SPECfp92 47.6 75.0 51.9 85.6 14.0
