| From: | Jeff Martin |
| Date: | 18 Aug 2001 at 13:18:47 |
| Subject: | RE: AmiThlon benchmarks |
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Buxey [mailto:almb@mssl.ucl.ac.uk]
> Sent: 17 August 2001 13:03
> To: amigactive@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [amigactive] AmiThlon benchmarks
>
>
> hi,
Hi,
> Bernie has done some work in benchmarking recently...and though some may
> go Wow!!! look at that speed, i'd like to point out the PPC benchmarks
> which are also included....
>
> notice VERY carefully that that PPC is only a 233MHz model...and this is a
> 1.3GHz Athlon is up against... consider that some of those operations are
> only 50% slower on the PPC and you really have to imagine how screamingly
> fast a, say 500MHz, G4 CPU would be in an Amiga.
>
> so, in my opinion, yet another reason to lean towards a next generation
> PPC-powered Amiga :-)
>
> yes, yes, some may say 'ah! but that CPU is emulating 68k, what about
> native x86? Yes, that would be much faster, but its not applicable when it
> comes to AmigaOS...and I might just point out that the PPC in those
> benchmarks doesnt have L2 cache and doesnt have decent memory bandwidth
> ;-)
>
> http://byron.csse.monash.edu.au/benchmarks.html
>
>
> alan
I'd just like to point out this is 68k emulation and not native x86. These
bench marks will show more when the Amiga One is released and it's 68k
emulations is measured. The vast majority of Amiga one apps will be emulated
until someone brings out native Amiga PPC software. So the comparison will
be an Amiga One emulating 68k and AmiThlon emulating 68k.
Just my 2 pence worth,
Jeff.
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