Benchmarks of Alaris's Nx586 VL show an improvement of about 1.7 times over that of a 66-MHz 486 for integer performance running BYTE's Portable Benchmarks. Integer performance is comparable to that of a Gateway 2000 P5-90. The price quoted for the Alaris includes a 420-MB hard drive and no monitor. Floating-point performance of the Nx586 was predictably poor, due to the lack of an on-board FPU.
Integer index* 1.74
CPU/speed (MHz) 84
Secondary cache (KB) 256
RAM (as tested, MB) 16
Floating-point index N/A
System price $2589
* Benchmark results are indexed against a 486/66 PC, which equals 1. Higher numbers mean better performance.
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Alaris's Pentium-Class NX586 VL
