The Alpha was RISC, and, as seen in page 14 of this very long, very interesting set of slides, it eventually got passed in raw MHz by x86 chips (specifically, t

The Alpha was RISC, and, as seen in page 14 of this very long, very interesting set of slides, it eventually got passed in raw MHz by x86 chips (specifically, the 1 GHz AMD Athlon vs the 667 MHz Alpha 21164 around the year 2000) but you can see it was a close race https://users.nik.uni-obuda.hu/sima/letoltes/Processor_families_Knowledge_Base_2019/Intels_Itanium_(IA64)_family_2018_10_29.pdf https://users.nik.uni-obuda.hu/sima/letoltes/Processor_famil... This PDF shows the Alpha 21164 was superscalar: https://acg.cis.upenn.edu/milom/cis501-Fall09/papers/Alpha21164.pdf https://acg.cis.upenn.edu/milom/cis501-Fall09/papers/Alpha21...