| From: | Jonas Gustavsson |
| Date: | 6 Sep 2000 at 21:55:49 |
| Subject: | SV: AMIOPEN: G450 released |
> > Most likely not for the AmigaOne, but Bill once said the Alpha is his
> > personal favourite, too...
> >
Mine too by the way :)
>
> The Alpha might be a nice architecture, but I would rather have a high end
> machine with 4 or 8 of the new low end CPU's. The geometry performance
> of a machine using 8 MAJC CPU's running at 500 MHz is astronomical...
>
Not to go into system design too much but even though you might get good
performance out of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 Majc what bus are you going to run it
on? the problem nowdays is not realy down to get the most Mips out of a CPU
but to get system balance(CPU to Memory to I/O subsystem and back).
That in mind there is a reason for the Alpha to get 46170.90 Bogomips on a
single WildFire system, but I�m not promoting Amiga to use that type of hardware
just the possibility will be quite enough for me.
Later
Jonas Gustavsson
3D Dev. Team / Support
Amiga Inc.
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