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		VLSI^* Microprocessors: Top SPEC Performance April 16, 1999 A Guide to High-Performance Microprocessor Resources


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16 Apr 1999 - IBM PowerPC 750 (G3) 466MHz - 18.8/12.2 results of 400MHz chip were changed to 21.8/12.6 of 466MHz
16 Apr 1999 - Intel Pentium III 500MHz - 18.9/14.7 results of 450MHz Pentium II Xeon were changed to 20.6/14.7 of Pentium III 500MHz
8 Feb 1999 - Compaq Alpha 21264 500MHz - 30.3/47.7 results of 575MHz chip at Digital AlphaServer 8400 were changed to 27.7/58.7 of 500MHz at Compaq AlphaServer DS20
8 Feb 1999 - Sun UltraSPARC-II 400MHz - 17.7/25.1 results of my estimation were changed to 17.4/25.7 of Sun Enterprise 450
8 Dec 1998 - HP PA-8500 367MHz - 17.4/28.5 results of PA-8200 240MHz chip were changed to 26.0/28.1 of PA-8500 367MHz
26 Nov 1998 - NEC VR12000 300MHz - 14.7/24.5 results of SGI MIPS R10000 250MHz chip were changed to 16.8/27.8 of NEC VR12000 300MHz
18 Nov 1998 - IBM PowerPC 750 (G3) 400MHz - 17.6 SPECint95 result was changed to 18.8 since IBM's estimation varied
3 Nov 1998 - Intel Pentium II Xeon 450MHz - 17.4/13.0 results of Intel's "workstation benchmarks" webpage were changed to 18.9/14.7 of Dell Precision WorkStation 610
2 Nov 1998 - Sun UltraSPARC-II 400MHz - 16.1/23.5 results of 360MHz chip were changed to 17.7/25.1 of 400MHz
2 Nov 1998 - Sun UltraSPARC-IIi 360MHz - 14.1/18.1 results of 333MHz chip were changed to 15.2/19.9 of 360MHz
17 Oct 1998 - IBM POWER3 200MHz - 8.6/26.6 results of 160MHz POWER2 were changed to 13.1/30.1 of 200MHz POWER3
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Individual Tests

Peak SPECint95/SPECfp95 ratio - Geometric mean of indivivual tests, compiled with aggressive optimization options, tuned for every test
Base SPECint_base95/SPECfp_base95 ratio - Geometric mean of indivivual tests, compiled with conservative optimization options

SPECint95
SPECint95		Peak Ratio of Individual Tests
Processor		099	124	126	129	130	132	134	147	Peak	Base
	Alpha 21264 575Mhz 4MB L2	29.4	35.0	25.9	24.9	30.4	31.8	33.6	33.0	30.3	26.0
	PA-RISC 8200 240Mhz 4MB L1	17.4	17.9	14.9	20.4	17.2	15.4	14.7	23.1	17.4	16.4
	Pentium II 400MHz 512KB L2	15.1	15.7	15.2	12.8	16.2	15.7	17.9	18.2	15.8	15.8
	MIPS R10000 250MHz 4MB L2	14.9	14.2	13.5	15.0	12.3	12.9	16.7	19.5	14.7	14.1
	PowerPC 604e 332MHz 256KB L2	18.0	18.4	13.2	9.66	13.2	17.1	15.1	12.8	14.4	14.0
	UltraSPARC IIi 333MHz 2MB L2	12.9	16.2	12.4	14.8	14.4	12.1	15.2	14.4	14.0	11.3
	Alpha 21164PC 533MHz 1MB L2	11.4	16.0	13.1	11.9	9.79	15.6	11.5	11.0	12.4	12.2

099.go An internationally ranked go-playing program
124.m88ksim A chip simulator for the Motorola 88100 microprocessor
126.gcc Based on the GNU C compiler version 2.5.3
129.compress A in-memory version of the common UNIX utility
130.li Xlisp interpreter
132.ijpeg Image compression/decompression on in-memory images
134.perl An interpreter for the Perl language
147.vortex An object oriented database

SPECfp95
SPECfp95		Peak Ratio of Individual Tests
Processor		101	102	103	104	107	110	125	141	145	146	Peak	Base
	Alpha 21264 575Mhz 4MB L2	80.2	103	21.4	32.7	44.1	23.8	42.5	48.5	82.7	59.1	47.7	40.9
	PA-RISC 8200 240Mhz 4MB L1	39.5	65.3	17.7	14.7	22.4	18.8	20.2	31.3	50.1	39.6	28.5	25.3
	POWER2 160Mhz 160KB L1	50.4	61.6	14.9	14.2	22.9	24.5	32.8	11.6	37.8	33.3	26.6	23.6
	MIPS R10000 250MHz 4MB L2	34.6	50.0	15.6	16.6	23.5	14.4	19.4	21.1	37.8	33.7	24.5	22.6
	UltraSPARC IIi 333MHz 2MB L2	22.3	34.0	12.0	8.84	15.4	9.96	14.8	24.2	20.4	22.7	17.0	15.8
	Alpha 21164PC 533MHz 1MB L2	23.9	34.0	10.3	7.82	17.1	8.84	15.0	19.6	20.3	19.6	16.1	14.1
	PowerPC 604e 332MHz 256KB L2	16.4	24.4	5.67	6.42	9.68	8.21	17.5	9.23	37.7	14.2	12.6	12.1
	Pentium II 400MHz 512KB L2	23.1	31.4	7.53	7.21	7.99	9.20	11.1	14.3	16.6	11.7	12.4	11.4

101.tomcatv Vectorized mesh generation
102.swim Shallow water equations
103.su2cor Monte-Carlo method
104.hydro2d Navier Stokes equations
107.mgrid 3d potential field
110.applu Partial differential equations
125.turb3d Turbulence modeling
141.apsi Weather prediction
145.fpppp From Gaussian series of quantum chemistry benchmarks
146.wave5 Maxwell's equations

Test Environment

Digital/Compaq Alpha 21264 500Mhz, 4MB L2 off-chip cache

Hardware:	Compaq AlphaServer DS20
Hardware Avail:	December 1998
Operating System:	Digital UNIX V4.0E
SPECfp95 Compiler:	DIGITAL Fortran V5.2, KAP Fortran V4.1
SPECint95 Source:	Electronic Buyers' News
SPECfp95 Source:	SPEC Database

Alpha 21164PC 533MHz, 1MB off-chip L2 cache

Alpha 21164PC is a 'PC' version of the Alpha 21164 processor. It has not large on-chip L2 cache, thus its performance is relatively small (remember Intel Celeron). It is not the best product of Alpha processor series and it did not reach great success (remember Celeron again). But the processor is cheap and it has its own niche in computer market.

Test Date:	November 1997
Hardware:	Alpha PC164SX Motherboard
Operating System:	Windows NT V4.0 SP3
SPECint95 Compiler:	Visual C++ V5.0, SPIKE V1.1Beta
SPECfp95 Compiler:	Visual Fortran V5.0, KAP 1.1, SPIKE 1.1Beta
SPECfp95 Source:	SPEC Database
SPECint95 Source:	SPEC Database

IBM POWER3 200Mhz, 4MB off-chip L2 cache

Test Date:	September 1998
Hardware:	RS/6000 43P-260
Operating System:	AIX 4.3.2
SPECint95 Compiler:	IBM C/C++ 3.6.4.0, memdbg 4.4.0.1, FDPR
SPECfp95 Compiler:	XL Fortran version 5.1.1.1, KAP 3.2, VAST-2
SPECint95 Source:	SPEC Database
SPECfp95 Source:	SPEC Database

IBM PowerPC 750 (G3) 400MHz, 1MB L2 cache

IBM PowerPC G3 was developed by joint team of IBM, Apple and Motorola and is produced by IBM using the company's advanced cooper technology.

Source:

PowerPC 750 performance document by IBM

HP PA-RISC 8500 367Mhz, 512KB Instruction + 1MB Data on-chip L1 cache

The processor incorporates 140,000,000 (!) transistors in single chip. But please do not too optimistic on the PA-RISC architecture since HP officers claimed its death soon.

Hardware:	HP 9000 Model C360
Hardware Avail:	December 1998
Operating System:	HP-UX B.10.20 A 9000/785
SPECint95 Compiler:	HP92453-01 G.10.32.05 HP C Compiler
SPECfp95 Compiler:	HP-UX f77 970509 B.10.20.09
SPECint95 Source:	SPEC Database
SPECfp95 Source:	SPEC Database

NEC VR12000 300MHz, 4MB L2 cache

NEC VR12000 processor architecture was developed by MIPS team (former SGI subdivision) and processor chips are manufactured at factories of Japan company NEC. Recent American version of the same processor (SGI R12000) has less performance rating than the Japan one.

Test Date:	February 1998
Hardware:	Origin2000: 1X 250MHz R10k
Operating System:	IRIX64 6.4
SPECint95 Compiler:	MIPSpro C Compiler 7.2
SPECfp95 Compiler:	MIPSpro Fortran 77 and 90 7.2, IRIX Development Foundation 1.0 with patch2687
SPECint95 Source:	SPEC Database
SPECfp95 Source:	SPEC Database

Sun UltraSPARC II 400MHz, 4MB off-chip L2 cache

Japan SPARC64-3 series has better performance rating, but its volume is small and its future is unclear, so I mention just Sun's processor.

Hardware:	Sun Enterprise 450
Hardware Avail:	November 1998
Operating System:	Solaris 7
SPECint95 Compiler:	Sun C 5.0 Early Access
SPECfp95 Compiler:	Sun f77 5.0 Early Access
SPECint95 Source:	SPEC Database
SPECfp95 Source:	SPEC Database

Sun UltraSPARC IIi 360MHz, 2MB off-chip L2 cache

Test Date:	September 1998
Hardware:	Sun Ultra 10 Model 360
Operating System:	Solaris 2.6, release 3/98
SPECint95 Compiler:	Sun C SC5.0 EFT1 (8/98)
SPECfp95 Compiler:	Sun f77 SF775.0 EFT1 (8/98)
SPECint95 Source:	SPEC Database
SPECfp95 Source:	SPEC Database

Intel Pentium III 500MHz, 512KB L2 cache without ECC

Developers from computer architecture community are not serious on Intel Pentium SPEC digits. But there are official point of view of the company, so I donot touch them up.

Hardware:	Intel SE440BX2 Motherboard
Hardware Avail:	March 1999
Memory:	128MB 100MHz SDRAM
Operating System:	Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
SPECint95 Compiler:	Intel C Compiler 4.0 for Windows NT
SPECfp95 Compiler:	Intel Fortran Compiler 4.0 for Windows NT
SPECint95 Source:	SPEC Database
SPECfp95 Source:	SPEC Database

Query SPEC Database: metric(s)

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	Processor	matches
	2nd Cache	matches
	Result
	Company	matches
	Hardware	matches
	Operating System	matches
	Publishing Date	since

Partial queries allowable. For example, to query all PowerPC processors results from the database, type PowerPC in Processor field. Leave all fields, which should not restrict query, blank.
For example, to query all Pentium II systems made by Siemens Nixdorf, type Pentium II in Processor field, and Siemens in Company field.
Fields with No value in Display? column will be excluded from result table, but nonblank value in the field still will restrict query. Then hit Fetch! button.

Processor The name and operating frequency of the processor
2nd Cache The size and structure of the second level cache
Result SPECint95/SPECfp95/SPECint_rate95/SPECfp_rate95 ratio
Company What company makes the system tested
Hardware What is the name of the system tested
Operating System The name and version of the operating system running on the system under test
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