4D/35 vs. 4D/3xx

[Jeremy Higdon]

In article <112 at tcela.COM>, tak at tcela.COM (Michael Takayama) writes:
> Looking through the latest UNIX Review (Jan 91), I noted that the 4D/340VGX
> is SPECmarked at 19.5 while the new 4D/35 is SPECmarked at 23 (pgs. 75 and
> 110, respectively).
> 
> OK, all you folks at SGI in ASD and ESD, given the price differential between
> the 4D/35 and 4D/3xx workstations, what is the *REAL* difference in compute
> performance (not graphics - it's pretty much a given that GTX and VGX 
> performance far exceed TG performance) between these systems (esp. 4D/35S 
> and 4D/310S)? 
> 

The 4D/340 has 4 processors.  The 19.5 mark is for a single processor only.
I believe that the throughput number is 67.something, or 4 @ 16.something.