PoserPC vs Intel

[Rick Thomas]

Unfortunately, the "obvious" choice, the Spec consortium benchmark site
(http://www.specbench.org/cgi-bin/osgresults?conf=cpu2000), doesn't have
any spec results for PPC processors running Linux.  They have lots of
results from IBM for RS/6000's running AIX, but that's not the kind of
machine you are likely to run Yellow Dog Linux on.

The "common knowledge" says that, MHz for MHz, the Motorola PPC
architecture will deliver better performance than the AMD or Intel X86
architecture, but there is no evidence one way or the other at the
SpecMark web site.  On the other hand, the same "common knowledge" says
that X86 machines are available much cheaper and at much higher MHz than
similarly configured PPC machines.

It would be neat if YDL sponsored somebody to run the Spec benchmarks on
one of their machines...  (hint!)


Rick

vkuznet wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I"m newbie to powerPC and wonder to buy one and I'm Linux guy.
> The only question I have where to find a fair comparision of
> Intel/PowerPC performance. I'm really interesting in performance
> of PowerPC running Linux and Intel running Linux.
> 
> Any links would be very welcome.
> 
> Thanks,
> Valentin.
> P.S. Could you please reply directly to this Email since I'm not
> in a mailing list.
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