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- From: kraemer@clri6a.gsi.de (Michael Kraemer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 060 vs PowerPC?
- Date: 19 Jan 1996 14:55:45 GMT
- Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
- Message-ID: <4dobdh$2584@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
- References: <kluebke.7.822055052@mi.uni-koeln.de>
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- In article <kluebke.7.822055052@mi.uni-koeln.de>, kluebke@mi.uni-koeln.de (Shep) writes:
- > >From: dreed@palantir.soc.staffs.ac.uk (Duncan Reed)
- > >Subject: 060 vs PowerPC?
- > >Date: 19 Jan 1996 08:45:40 GMT
- >
- > >I just wondered if anyone new the difference in performance between
- > >an 68060 and a 604 PowerPC.
- >
- > >Assuming both running at the same clock speed what would be the performance
- > >difference if:
- > >a: both running native code
- > >b: both running 060 code (i.e. PowerPC is emulating 060)
- > >c: both running 68000 code
- >
- > A German PC mag recently ran some benchmarks on these systems, both
- > integer and floating point arithmetics.
- > The result (1.00 is the reference set by a Dell Pentium 90):
- >
- > 68040-25 0.25-0.35
- > 68060-50 0.45-0.55
- ^^^^^^^^
-
- Which system and which software did they use for the 68k ?
- AFAIK there are no 68060 desktops other than accelerated Amigas.
- And there's little "software overlap" between such Amigas and the PC world,
- let alone between them and PPC604 systems.
- And which PC mag was it ?
-
-
- > PPC604-132 2.70-2.90
- > PentiumPro-150 1.70-1.90
- > (if I remember correctly)
- >
- > So the PPC outperforms the 060 by a factor of 5-6.
- > This, however, includes the difference in clock speed.
- > But since there neither is a 132 Mhz 060 nor a 50 MHz PPC604,
- > you cannot compare them at the same clock speed anyway.
- >
- > But I do not know whether they used native code on the PPC
- > (the results suggest it, however).
- >
- > Shep
- >
- >
-