Afterburner/Nemesis performance
benchmarks
Gembench results...
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AFTERBURNER040 @ 16.5/33/66MHz
Standard Falcon
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Falcon 030 TOS 4.04
AES v3.40
GEMDOS v0.48
MiNT not present
Blitter not present
NVDI 2.51 present
Video Mode: 640*480*2
FPU cookie value=$80000 (68040 internal)
Run and Malloc from FastRAM
Ref: F030 + FPU, 640*480*2
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GEM Dialog Box: 0.770 454%
VDI Text: 0.200 1700%
VDI Text Effects: 0.410 1826%
VDI Small Text: 0.250 1500%
VDI Graphics: 1.045 835%
GEM Window: 0.535 261%
Integer Division: 0.910 340%
Float Math: 0.095 357%
RAM Access: 0.215 1023%
ROM Access: 0.220 954%
Blitting: 0.875 128%
VDI Scroll: 1.140 231%
Justified Text: 0.920 354%
VDI Enquire: 0.110 1436%
New Dialogs: 0.905 491%
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Graphics: 837%
CPU: 668%
Average: 792%
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AFTERBURNER040 @ 20/40/80MHz
Nemesis fitted and running with 20MHz bus
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Falcon 030 TOS 4.04
AES v3.40
GEMDOS v0.48
MiNT not present
Blitter not present
NVDI 2.51 present
Video Mode: 640*480*2
FPU cookie value=$80000 (68040 internal)
Run and Malloc from FastRAM
Ref: F030 + FPU, 640*480*2
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GEM Dialog Box: 0.690 507%
VDI Text: 0.175 1942%
VDI Text Effects: 0.365 2052%
VDI Small Text: 0.225 1666%
VDI Graphics: 0.920 948%
GEM Window: 0.485 288%
Integer Division: 0.750 413%
Float Math: 0.080 425%
RAM Access: 0.180 1222%
ROM Access: 0.180 1166%
Blitting: 0.770 145%
VDI Scroll: 1.030 256%
Justified Text: 0.835 390%
VDI Enquire: 0.095 1663%
New Dialogs: 0.800 556%
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Graphics: 946%
CPU: 806%
Average: 909%
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NEMESIS - VIDEO PERFORMANCE
Falcon with Nemesis at 24/48MHz (24MHz System speed/48MHz DSP & FPU)
- all are non-interlaced resolutions, 16-bit (65,536 colours per
screen) on a standard 14" VGA non-multisync!
Expect far higher resolution modes with a half-decent multi-sync :-)
Bus CPU Video Hz
640x480 24 24 24 60
720x528 24 24 24 50
Nemesis also accelerates the FPU and DSP to 48MHz.
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NEMESIS + AFTERBURNER040 - VIDEO PERFORMANCE
Falcon with Afterburner040 and Nemesis - all are non-interlaced
resolutions, 16-bit (65,536 colours per screen) on a standard 14" VGA.
Bus CPU Pipe Video Hz
720x528 12.5 25 50 25 50
640x480 12.5 25 50 25 60
512x400 20 40 80 20 50
Note: Although the Afterburner CPU is being half-clocked in the
highest resolutions, the actual performance is still much higher
than a standard Falcon, and is completely switchable between the
various specifications.