about Ultra-sparc and alpha: what makes the difference?

[Toni Heinonen]

They are faster most often because they can process more complex commands, so whereas an IA processor might do 1000 MIPS and a SPARC does as many, the SPARC is faster because it "gets more done" with as many instructions. Try search terms like "benchmark sparc intel" or "benchmark sparc pc" or the like, without the quotes.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zhang Weiwu [mailto:zhangweiwu at realss.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 8:28 PM
> To: questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: about Ultra-sparc and alpha: what makes the difference?
> 
> 
> Hello. The question sounds really silly, but google with 
> "compare sparc 
> i386 alpha" / "benchmark sparc i386 alpha" doesn't give meaningful 
> result in several pages. Please suggest me a better keyword 
> compilation:)
> 
> I don't know about anything other than i386, but the sparc 
> servers and 
> alpha servers are much more expensive than i386 servers on the same 
> clock rate. People keep telling me "they are expensive 
> because they are 
> more advanced", but I prefer to read some comperhasive data, 
> benchmarks 
> and such like.
> 
> Thank you.
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