Re: alpha slower than pentium II

Bjoern Tiemann (tiemann@ife.ee.ethz.ch)
Sun, 17 Dec 1995 23:06:38 +0100


davidm@AZStarNet.com wrote:

> the given cache sizes there are a lot of conflict misses. Therefore,
> it would be interesting to see how the Noname would do on a machine
> with a 1MB cache and/or with a 233MHz CPU (that CPU also has the 16KB
> primary caches). Any takers?

Not exactly. The 233 MHz 21066A CPU has the same cache sizes (8 + 8 kB)
as the 21066. It has the faster division algorithms of the 21064A though
and a speedup greater than the clock frequency ratio would be possible.

Yours
Bjoern