Intel Itanium 2 Benchmarks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday May 29, 2002 @01:01AM 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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run benchmarks in cache == FAST by johnjones · 2002-05-29 01:23 · Score: 4, Interesting

well I'm sorry but all the benchmarks seem to be cache hitters and so run pretty damn fast

real systems are about BANDWIDTH

memory bandwidth/latency is the reason AMD killed the P4 in benchmarks

lets see INTEL go up aganst a SUN on a large oracle DB then I will take notice

really this is where SUN make their money

regards

john jones