low-end octane2? (was: Re: [rescue] octane question)

Mon Jan 21 01:21:21 CST 2002

Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> > Ooh yes. Starting at 500MHz R14000 to 600MHz, pure IRIX.
> 
> Yes, but how does a 500-600Mhz R1500 compare to say, a
> 500Mhz UltraSPARC-IIi or UltraSPARC-II?

looking at spec.org:
SGI 2200, 1x500 R14000: 412 SPECint2k, 386 SPECfp2k
Sun E450, 1x480 US-II:  234 SPECint2k, 291 SPECfp2k

The SGI 2200 processors (like other middle- to highend servers) use 8MB
cache, 4 times the size of this baby, so cut a few percent from those
SPEC-numbers and you get the 2MB cache CPU performance.
The 600MHz version will have more cache though...

/Bjorn