Re: Power Mac Performance
- Subject: [mg277] Re: [mg247] Power Mac Performance
- From: naoyuki at osaka-sandai.ac.jp (Naoyuki Tsukamoto)
- Date: Sun, 4 Dec 1994 12:18:12 +0900
- Apparently-to: mathgroup-send at christensen.cybernetics.net
At 13:19 11/28/94 -0700, BOSS at PMEL.NOAA.GOV wrote:
>I would be interested in seeing the results of this simple test from other
>platforms such as the Sparc workstations and the Pentium-based PC.
>
>Ed Boss
>NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
The results of the test on my platforms.
Macintosh Quadra 950
24MB RAM
Timing[Inverse[Table[Random[],{100},{100}]];]
{6.68333 Second, Null}
Timing[N[Pi, 500];]
{0.433333 Second, Null}
Timing[10000!][[1]]
41.0667 Second
SONY NEWS-5000
R4000SC, 128MB RAM
Timing[Inverse[Table[Random[],{100},{100}]];]
{1.26667 Second, Null}
Timing[N[Pi, 500];]
{0.0666667 Second, Null}
Timing[10000!][[1]]
9.85 Second
IBM RS/6000 Model 590
Power2 66MHz, 128MB RAM
Timing[Inverse[Table[Random[],{100},{100}]];]
{0.4 Second, Null}
Timing[N[Pi, 500];]
{0.02 Second, Null}
Timing[10000!][[1]]
2.3 Second
I'm impressed PowerMac is faster than SONY's RISC 100MIPS machine.
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Naoyuki Tsukamoto
Dept. of Civil Eng.
Osaka Sangyo University
Osaka / Japan
e-mail : naoyuki at osaka-sandai.ac.jp
ntsukamoto at aol.com
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