On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Zhang Weiwu wrote:

> Andrew Gaffney wrote:
>
>> This is just a guess, but an Ultra 2 with dual 300s or 400s is 
>> probably going to be pretty close in performance.
>> 
> A small test showed very disapointing result. (This is not a desktop 
> performace test, only I play with it)

I very much doubt you'll find any uniprocessor UltraSPARC II-based 
system that'll match the raw CPU performance of a 1GHz x86 system.

The better question to ask is probably something like, "What US-II
system will give me reasonable desktop performance?"

Assuming a uniprocessor system, I'd say any US-II with a clock speed 
of 450MHz or higher will feel "modern" -- but don't expect it to 
benchmark like a 1GHz x86; for that, you'd need a relatively expensive 
US-III system.

-- Paul Heinlein <heinlein@...>

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