| From: | Vidar Langberget |
| Date: | 6 Sep 2000 at 20:19:32 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: G450 released |
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonas Gustavsson" <jonas.gustavsson@mbox305.swipnet.se>
> > 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.
AMD wants to make their LDT bus a new industry standard. 6.4 GB/sec IIRC...
Vidar
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