Itanium 2 outpaced Power4

From my previous article
,
it is known that a single Itanium 2 could perform sightly better than
Power4 used in Regatta p690. Not suprisingly, ZDNet
reports
that NEC already built
a 32-way Itanium server that beats 32-way p690 in
TPC

benchmark.

The Itanium 2 chips used by NEC is McKinley-base chips. This report hints that Itanium
servers could also be scalable when comparing to RISC-based 32-processor configuration.

Itanium 2 starts to draw public attention and gain momentum. Will the new Madison-based
Itanium 2 outperform other RISC based chip later this year? IBM
claims
that
its upcoming Power5 performs 4 times better than Power4. We will wait
and see how it goes. Stay tuned.