Comment Re:Athlon vs. Alpha (Score 1) 257
Your definition of "real-world" should depend a lot on what you want to use the machine for:
If you want to use the machine as a server you will want some server benchmark, for example "specWEB".
There are numbers for both dual AMD and dual Alpha configurations on www.spec.org. They are not exactly for the processors you want to know about, and this kind of benchmark depends a lot on the software (web server, OS) used.
Normally you should use a benchmark for the software you want to run (Oracle / SQLServer / SAP R3 / apache / IIS / ...)
If you want to use the machine for scientific computing, look at specCPU (SPEC_int_rate_2000 / SPEC_fp_rate_2000)
2*Athlon MP/1800+: 13 / 10
DS20E (2*Alpha 21264B@833): 13 / 15.9
2*Xeon 2Ghz: 13.4 / 12.4
If you want to use the machine as a server you will want some server benchmark, for example "specWEB".
There are numbers for both dual AMD and dual Alpha configurations on www.spec.org. They are not exactly for the processors you want to know about, and this kind of benchmark depends a lot on the software (web server, OS) used.
Normally you should use a benchmark for the software you want to run (Oracle / SQLServer / SAP R3 / apache / IIS /
If you want to use the machine for scientific computing, look at specCPU (SPEC_int_rate_2000 / SPEC_fp_rate_2000)
2*Athlon MP/1800+: 13 / 10
DS20E (2*Alpha 21264B@833): 13 / 15.9
2*Xeon 2Ghz: 13.4 / 12.4
