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Intel Itanium 2 Benchmarks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the faster-and-faster-she-goes dept.

Pablo writes "Over at VR-Zone we saw some interesting benchmarks of the upcoming Intel Itanium 2 processor codenamed McKinley that is on schedule to be launched during second half of this year. With a faster 3MB on-die L3 cache, 6 instructions/cycle and 6.4GB/s of bandwidth, it is poised to perform at 1.5-2x of the current Itanium processor. There is an overview of how the Intel Itanium 2 at 1Ghz clock frequency will perform against the current Itanium 800Mhz and Sun's Ultra Sparc III RISC processor."

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  1. Re:No benchmarks by Merlin42 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Personally I like how each page in the ppt presentations used a slightly different USIII ranging from 800 to 1050Mhz. Hmm smells like marketing picked out the best from a bunch of (simulated?) benchmarks. Everything was labeled 'simulated' or 'estimated'.

    Nothing to see here folks please move along.

    Well other than the slow death of competing high end architectures.

    Lets see here we have:
    SPARC ... still competitive I think
    Itanium ... taking over
    Alpha ... going the way of the dodo (im really sad about this)
    PA-RISC ... transitioning to Itanium
    MIPS ... never really liked them for big compute stuff, lets hope SGI can turn things around.
    Power4 ... still competitive in performance but AFAIK to get a high end system you need to give your first born to IBM. And, IMO not really designed for the HPC kind of stuff I'm interested in.
    Cray ... ? I've heard of some really cool stuff being developed, i'll believe it when I see it.

    What eles is out there? I haven't really been in the market for a high end system in a while, but it feels like the market is shrinking and soon Itanium will be "the choice," unless legacy support is a concern .

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  2. Re:No benchmarks by T-Punkt · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Even the graph has been done by a marketing guy.
    They sorted the benchmark results in ascending order and the connected the data points of completely different and independet benchmarks by a line!

    What shall the line tell you? The faker the benchmark the better the results? Or
    "This is a line graph that doesn't make sense at all. But look: It shows an increase, increase is good, so Itanion 2 is good!"