From: Jane Loyless (jloyless_at_netbox.com)
Date: Fri Aug 06 1999 - 22:26:28 EDT
You know, I really need to clear out some clutter.....
>>From: Randal Whittle <rwhittle_at_usa.net>
>>To: TP List <tp750_at_cs.utk.edu>
>>Date: Wednesday, December 31, 1997 1:22 PM
>>Subject: Upgraded 701C Benchmark Results
>>
>>
>>>
>>>I just sent an Excel file with all of the Winstone and Winbench Test
>>>results to Emanuel Brown, who I'm sure will get this set up on his web page
>>>for all to see. That also includes my own benchmarking of my P120-based
>>>ThinkPad 560 as well as my desktop Pentium Pro 200 for your comparison.
>>>
>>>Please note that there are some Winstone scores that just won't show up.
>>>For some reason, there are certain tests that my 701 just *won't*
>>>complete--it hangs on the Netscape Navigator test and the PowerPoint 97
>>>test, in particular. Unfortunately, this in turn messes up some of the
>>>overall test scores because it fails in these areas.
>>>
>>>Until Emanuel can set that up and you can get over to see those, I thought
>>>I could pass along the results of some of the "simpler" tests--that of
>>>Norton System Information (2.0--included in Norton Utils for Windows 2.0)
>>>and Wintune 95.
>>>
>>>The "Stock" 701C yielded a Norton SI score of 4.0. The SI score after the
>>>upgrade was 6.7. For comparison, a "typical" (I presume desktop) 386SX-16
>>>serves as the baseline at 1.0. A 486-33 (I presume desktop) is a 5.9, and
>>>a Pentium 90 is 20.4. That gives you some idea of what Nortn SI thinks of
>>>the upgrade. Keep in mind this is a CPU-only benchmark.
>>>
>>>Please note that the following is *exactly* what the benchmark reports. In
>>>particular, the AMD 486 thing. Supposedly, this new CPU is an AMD
>>>"Enhanced"5x86, but no, that doesn't make it a Pentium. The benchmark
>>>apparently isn't fooled either--they see it as a 486 at 100 MHz. Basically
>>>it appears to be a clock-quadrupled (as opposed to tripled, as is the stock
>>>CPU in the 701) 25-MHz-based 486, plus the added advantage of AMD's
>>>floating-point math-coprocessor being extra fast (you can see that in the
>>>Whetstone score below).
>>>
>>>For Wintune 95, here's the details:
>>>
>>>
>>> Upgraded 701C Stock 701C
>>> -------------- ---------------
>>>CPU AMD 486 Intel 486DX4
>>>Clock 100 MHz 75 MHz
>>>Dhrystone 36 MIPS 25 MIPS
>>>Whetstone 16 MFLOPS 6.9 MFLOPS
>>>Video Speed 2.9 MP/s 2.1 MP/s
>>>C: Cached Speed 4.4 MB/s 4.7 MB/s
>>>C: Uncached " 1.1 MB/s 1.1 MB/s
>>>RAM Read Avg. 84 MB/s 70 MB/s
>>>RAM Write Avg. 28 MB/s 30 MB/s
>>>RAM Copy Avg. 15 MB/s 13 MB/s
>>>
>>>
>>>If you just *can't* wait for Mr. Brown to put up the Excel file with the
>>>Winstone and Winbench scores on his web page, upon request I can send you
>>>the Excel file. Just let me know in private E-mail. I am reluctant to
>>>just send the file to the list because not everyone wants to or cares to
>>>see it.
>>>
>>>
>>>-------
>>>Randal J. Whittle whittle_at_usc.edu (213) 740-7775
>>>Director, Electronic Commerce Program
>>>Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Thu Jan 23 2003 - 09:55:14 EST