CompuServe Thread

Power pc machines simply do not outperform pentium machines. The new Tritonm Pentiums are unmatched for speed. one cannot use the cisc vs risc general theory, because the ppc has cisc components and the pentiums is half risc as well. The power pc chip has many risc features, but is a child of the ibm rs6000 older risc designs which have some cisc low level instructions sets. The pentiums, have many risc features, including– branch prediction, superscaler execution, pipelining, dual instruction \data cache, seperate add\sub\ x \divide fpu, multi instructions \clock , etc, that the ppc's are just now implementing in the 604. The p6 goes even further, with features like Dynamic execution, multiple branch prediction in groups, Data flow analysis, to optimize multiple instructions, speculative execution , and out of order execution. also, the Pentiums and the p6 were built from the ground up for SMP, or multiprocessing, having the smp controllers built into the chip, not to mention p6's 256k of L2 cache in the chip, and a L3 cache of perhaps 512 on the board. The pentiums are also .35 microns, have a more advanced design, and manufacturing process,.more efficiency there are too many technaical issues to bring up here, but suffice to say that the ppc 601 has none of the above mentioned items, and the 604 only a few. Board architecture has everything to do with it as well. PPC systems like the mac have a slow outdated Nubus? and very inefficient chipsets, as opposed to the Pentium systems we sell, that include the new Intel TRITON chipset, that is PCI, has built in EIDE mode 4 dma 2 for 22 megs a sec disk transfer, and built in native digital signal processing, EDO ram, for hyperpage ram that is linked to pipelined burst syncronus cache that is 10 ns for 100 megs a sec bust memory transfers, add to that a 128 bit #9 or the new 192 bit Radius Firestorm graphics card with 3- 64 bit graphics co processors (one for each color) and scsi 3 or EIDE mode 4 drives, all on NT 3.5, and you have a unbeatable performer. Oh and 100 mps PCI network cards ! The pentium 120's are out, the p133's arrive June 12, the p150's , which will have 32k L1 cache, and some P6 tricks,-Oct and even a proposed p180 will all be here soon. Add to that a P6 at 133mhz in Nov, and a 200 mhz in Jun 96, and there is nothing , not even SGI that touches the massive open archiitecture, fast development , and performance of some 1000 companies developing Hardware for the Intel platform for ultimate performance. Dual and Quad p6's arrive before Nov, and dual p133's by Aug. And all the Glint, Rockwell , and Yamaha 3 d processors too. I could go on and on, but you get the idea. The Intel platform, coupled with Microsoft will be the future. there are simply too many companies developing new architecture and competiting with one another offering faster and better hardware and it is growing at exponential rate. SGI and MAC offer essentially a closed systems, that is heavily controlled by them. Competition is the key to growth. remember VHS vs Betamax ? Vhs was the standard and IS. The ppc also requires perfectly compiled code, being risc, and relying more on software, for claimed performance figures and as such the MAC os is only 40% natively compiled, so the risc is not being fully implemented, and all the apps suffer this as well. There are no ppc systems available to the public that will come close to a dual pentium 100\120, or a single Triton p100 system. We have sen the Chevy 3ds rendered in less than 40 seconds on the tritons we build, and that is in the background !! do not believe everyting you "hear" about risc from ads etc, without knowing all the tech details and truth about risc\cisc, because the fact is Pentiums and P6's are as risc if not more so that many "risc" claimed cpu's . That is simpy a fact, thats needed to be told to the people who have been mislead by ads etc. hope the info helps Cameron CYberImage -Running NT and INtel's best !