Does anybody know where I can get some benchmark results from the
UltraSparc series (IIIi,IV) ? I want to compare it to Intel and AMD
processors, so maybe some whet/dhrystone results would be fine. I
haven't found anything usefull at SUNs website.

Markus Nöbauer wrote:
> Does anybody know where I can get some benchmark results from the
> UltraSparc series (IIIi,IV) ? I want to compare it to Intel and AMD
> processors, so maybe some whet/dhrystone results would be fine. I
> haven't found anything usefull at SUNs website.

www.spec.org, I expect will have a lot. You'll find SPARC to be quite
low, particularly on integer performace, but you should be aware that
benchmarks do not really tell the whole story when it comes to overall
system performance.

Garry wrote:
> Markus Nöbauer wrote:
>
>> Does anybody know where I can get some benchmark results from the
>> UltraSparc series (IIIi,IV) ? I want to compare it to Intel and AMD
>> processors, so maybe some whet/dhrystone results would be fine. I
>> haven't found anything usefull at SUNs website.
>
>
> www.spec.org, I expect will have a lot. You'll find SPARC to be quite
> low, particularly on integer performace, but you should be aware that
> benchmarks do not really tell the whole story when it comes to overall
> system performance.

my personal home testing using http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/benchmark/aburto/
sorry dont have any IIIi or IV i can run tests on.

the sparc runs solaris10, amd64 solaris10, k7 solaris9.

sparc U10/440/50ns sunwspro cc(v7) drystone = 620
x86 amd64 3200+/2x512/400ddr = gcc 3667
x86 amd k7 2083mhz/2x256/333ddr = gcc 2867

flops:
U10 = 193-789
x86 amd64 = 807-1823 (-O2 747-1375 64bit:796-1750 )
x86 amd k7 = 751-1641 (-O2 678-1296 )

gcc -O4 -fexpensive-optimizations -ffast-math -march=pentium
-fold-unroll-all-loops

Jorgen Moquist <jorgen.moquist@n.o.s.p.a.m.mailbox.swipnet.se> wrote:

> my personal home testing using http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/benchmark/aburto/
> sorry dont have any IIIi or IV i can run tests on.

dhrystone and flops won't gain much from a big CPU cache.
I have spend some time collecting benchmark results from various
platforms using dhrystone, whetstone, linpack and stream:
http://sites.inka.de/pcde/dbp/
The main focus was to benchmark older computers and make
results comparable.

I am not saying that results are completely useless, but
it's normaly worth to know what you are testing with a
benchmark. Any more results are very welcome though.
The great thing about these free benchmarks is that you
can test yourself if the machine under your desk is faster
or slower than a Cray :-)

mfg
Dennis

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