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- From: yeproy@imaginet.fr (UNREGISTERED VERSION)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Is MUI processor intensive?
- Date: 10 Feb 1996 20:20:52 GMT
- Organization: ImagiNET
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- Paul Dossett wrote :
-
- > So what? The machine will still be faster. On the whole, the AGA chipset
- > doesn't particularly speed things up. AIBB rates my ECS system as running
- > graphics tasks faster than a 1200, thanks to a faster processor.
-
- Which graphics tests? WritePixel and EllipseTest, because they are CPU
- intensive, but a Chip RAM only A1200 (14 MHz '020) leaves in the dust your
- 33 MHz '040 A2000 when it comes to LineTest!!! Your machine performs only
- 12% better than the stock A2000 with such a test anyway...
-
- Ever tried to compare your '040 A2000 with a '040 A1200, just to be fair?
- I did, with a 25 MHz Falcon 040 (thanks G÷ran): the 1200 performs 40% better
- than your A2000 with WritePixel, with 25% less CPU power.
-
- The standard 25 MHz '040 A4000 is even better, with 51% instead of 40%.
-
- AGA is not a great performer, for sure. But it is still 50% faster than
- ECS.
-
- > Most programs (word processors, raytracers, samplers) need CPU power.
- > Graphics throughput is so completely unimportant to the argument that you can
- > discount it. The A600 with the A620 *will* be a lot faster than an A1200 for
-
- Ever tried ShapeShifter? Don't if you don't have a graphic board in your
- A2000, unless you accept a monochrome display. Graphics throughput is not
- something to neglect with modern applications (and I didn't even mentionned
- MUI, Paul... ;-)).
-
- > everyday use.
- >
- > These are the facts, try using the systems in comparison and running
- > benchmarks if you don't believe them.
-
- Being the author of CompilAIBB, I have studied *many* benchmark results,
- and I do not share your conclusions about AGA speed improvement, nor
- about usefulness of quick graphics.
-
- Now, to be honest, it is highly probable that the 28 MHz A620 performs
- as much as 2 times faster than a 14 MHz A1200, except for graphic tests.
- So the overall feeling of speed should be in favor of this A620.
-
- Anyway, it could help clarify things if a user of a A600+A620 could send me
- an AIBB module from his machine.
-
- Of course one could argue that benchmarks represent vaguely (at best...)
- the feeling of speed that people have in everyday life, but I guess it is
- another debate...
-
-
- Regards,
-
- Yann
-
- PS: Paul, I'm sorry to contradict you twice in two messages, I can assure
- you there's nothing personnal in it... ;-)
-
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