PC vs. Workstation
11-Jan-94 21:47:01
Sb: #75625-PC vs. Workstation
Fm: Conrad Stolze 72110,1263
To: Ignacio 100115,3133
Ignacio,
From someone that has an Alpha in-house (we "scammed" a demo from DEC for a
client that was interested) let me say that they are KILLER boxes. BUT, don't
let those numbers fool you! NT imposes some SERIOUS overhead on these systems,
and the actual application speed will not see that much of an increase. DEC
admits that by saying that apps will have to be specifically recompiled for the
Alpha to realize serious speed increases. Our benchmarks so far showing the
Alpha about 5% to 10% faster than a good Pentium box. However, as your numbers
illustrate, the floating point potential is phenominal.
Now, if I could only test 3DS3………….
Chuck