Itanium performance item - SharkyForums. In a document published by Cordiant, the 800 MHz Itanium processor showed a greater than 10 fold advantage in processing secure transactions over existing, RISC-based processors. For example, a server configured with four Itanium processors performed more than 1,376 security transactions without hardware acceleration, compared to 114 transactions achieved on a comparably configured Sun Enterprise 420R system. Life is good.
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It has real and imaginary parts. Well I found the link on the Encryption performance. I'm sure Itanium can make a killing against any of the RISC processors out there in terms of security processing. As for the SPEC scores, Moridin, you'll have to provide a reliable link. I find it hard to believe Itanium would get a SPECint score of 205.