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Latest EMME/2 Benchmarks

Since the last published EMME/2 benchmarks (October 1989 and April 1990 EMME/2 News) many new machines have appeared on the market. A year and a half ago, we were marveling at desktop computers approaching mainframe CPU throughput. It is now a standard feature for personal workstations to act like little bombs. Even tiny notebook computers, such as the Chicony NB5620, give impressive results. Just take a look at the following benchmarks!

Computer ModelProcessorSpeedDateAuto AssignmentTrans.
CPU/FPUMHz1 it.TotalAss.
HP 9000-720HP RISC5011/913.032.76.15
IBM 6000/320hIBM RISC2510/915.459.012.73
SUN IPXSPARC4011/916.774.115.91
SUN SPARCstation2SPARC4001/916.976.220.00
IBM 6000/320IBM RISC2011/907.178.316.73
SUN SPARCserv.470SPARC3302/917.582.519.61
SUN ELCSPARC3311/918.188.619.05
IBM 3090NEC AS/EX90n/&a09/898.492.719.15
HP9000-835HP RISC3009/8910.3113.623.38
Compaq 486-33 (DOS)i4863302/9110.6119.731.70
Siltron 486i4863305/9110.8124.337.50
SUN SPARCserv.330SPARC2501/9011.1121.823.50
Compaq 486-25 (SCO)i4862511/9111.3122.427.43
DELL 433Ei4863309/9011.5135.240.80
VAX 6410DECn/&a06/9112.5138.033.19
Chicony NB5620386SX2011/9153.8599.2147.91

At this pace, within a year, we will have to change our benchmarks if we want to have the time to see them run...

Two years ago, we defined a graphic benchmark with a very small hatchwidth parameter to ensure a sufficiently long display time (see EMME/2 News of June 1991). With the top three machines from the above table, the display times are 1.8, 3.3 and 3.6 seconds respectively. Barely enough to time it.

As you will read these lines, HP will have announced its 9000/710 computer which is a low cost version of the 720 and approximately 70% as fast. Also, SUN will announce a new generation of SPARC chips in a few weeks.


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Heinz Spiess, EMME/2 Support Center, Thu Jun 6 14:25:33 MET DST 1996