Power Mac vs. Pentium / Sparc 10 Performance
- To: mathgroup at christensen.cybernetics.net
- Subject: [mg781] Power Mac vs. Pentium / Sparc 10 Performance
- From: domokos at phakt.usc.edu[phakt.usc.edu] (Marius)
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 00:25:49 -0400
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Hello Everybody!! In my own tests, I have concluded that a PowerMac 8100/80 surpasses a Sparc 10 station in performance. The difference is actually dramatic, at least for my expectations. For a complex program involving a series of loops + numerical and symbolic computations, + integration, + compiled and regular functions, the PowerMac always ran faster, by far. Could anybody confirm this? I know that Apple introduced the 8100/80 by proving that it could beat the Sparc 10 in 3D graphycs rendering. How about the Pentiums? I would expect the PowerMac 6100 to be faster than a 90MHz Pentium. Is it true? Thank you. Frank Domokos