Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: ata@cs.adelaide.edu.au (Atanas Parashkevov)
Subject: Re: T800 performance
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., University of Adelaide
Date: 17 Jun 1994 04:12:49 GMT
Message-ID: <2tr7s1$74f@quandong.itd.adelaide.edu.au>

In article <2taddo$e0r@news.bu.edu>, fwilson@park.bu.edu (Frank D. M. Wilson) writes:
|> Apologies if this is a FAQ.  Would someone be able to give me some
|> idea of the processing power of a T800 transputer compared to (say)
|> a 486DX33 ?  I don't want to open up the entire benchmarking can of
|> worms ... I'm just looking for a rough "guestimate" :-)

Depends what type of application you are running. T800 has a MUCH better
FPU unit than 486DX/33, and in fact outperforms even 486DX/66 in
some certain operations (I've made the necessary tests some time ago).
But T800 has poorer integer performance, say 30-40%. As a whole,
the performance of T800 and 486DX/33 are roughly the same.

Ah, and I spoke about T800/25 Mhz.

/Cheers,
		Ata

