Digital's DECstation Family Performance Summary

This performance summary provides a comprehensive look at the benchmark results for Digital's DECstation 5000 family of RISC workstations. Conducted in late 1991, the document compares these systems against various competitive platforms from Sun, HP, IBM, and SGI. It covers a wide array of industry-standard benchmarks including:

• SPEC Benchmark Suite: Including SPECint and SPECfp for integer and floating-point performance.
• Processor Benchmarks: Dhrystone (integer), Linpack (floating-point), Whetstone, DR Labs CPU2, and Khornerstone.
• Graphics Benchmarks: Covering 2D and 3D graphics performance via X11perf and Picture-Level Benchmarks (PLB).
• Compatibility: SoftPC benchmark results demonstrating DOS application emulation.

The document details specific test configurations for all systems analyzed, ensuring transparency in how the performance data was generated for the 1991 product lineup.