Performance
All of the 700 and 7000 series machines predate standard performance measurement tools such as the Whetstone (1972), Dhrystone (1984), LINPACK (1979), or Livermore loops (1986) benchmarks.
In the table below, the Gibson and Knight measurements report speed, where higher numbers are better; the TRIDIA measurement reports time, where lower numbers are better.
| Model | Gibson mix KIPS |
Knight Index scientific |
TRIDIA program (FORTRAN) (seconds) |
|---|---|---|---|
| IBM 705 m1,2 | 0.50 | ||
| IBM 705 m3 | 0.38 | ||
| IBM 709 | 21 | ||
| IBM 7030 | 372 | 15.58 | |
| IBM 7040 | 148 | ||
| IBM 7044 | 109 | 74 | |
| IBM 7090 | 139 | 66 | |
| IBM 7094 | 176 | 31.35 | |
| IBM 7094 II | 257 | 217 | 16.50 |
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