Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[chipguy]

I´m still unsure what to think of the performance of the Power PC970. How does it perform, from what you´ve seen?

IBM estimated a 1.8 GHz 970 would give SPECint2k 937, and
SPECfp2k 1051. It loses a lot of performance compared to its
big brother POWER4+ due to the much inferior cache hierarchy.
The 970 has a on-chip 512 KB L2 cache vs 1.5 MB on-chip L2
cache and 32+ MB L3 external cache in the POWER4+. It is
basically a desktop chip pressed into a server role.