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- From: mharrell@sojourn1.sojourn.com (Matt Harrell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 060 vs PowerPC?
- Date: 8 Feb 1996 16:17:24 GMT
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- Steve Koren (koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com) wrote:
-
- : Anyway, I guess I still believe the 68060 is useful. I don't expect to
- : see native commerical PPC apps for quite some time. Getting a 2-5 X
- : performance boost in the meantime is no small thing. It isn't in the
- : Pentium or P6 class, but its the closest the Amiga can come to competing
- : with PC performance at the moment - maybe gets us to a third of a fast
- : Pentium instead of 1/10th for the 040.
-
- I think that this is a bit more debatable than that. The small amount
- of speed comparisons that I have seen between 486's and 040's, and
- 060's and P5's indicate that they compare fairly well. It's difficult
- to make meaningful comparisons between such different processor
- designs, but I believe that the 040 *at the same clock speed* (yes, I
- know...) is slightly faster than the 486, and that the 060 is in the
- same ballpark as a P5 at the same clock speed. In the initial press
- release, the 060 was eventually supposed to be clocked significantly
- higher than 50MHz. Does anyone know if any progress has been made
- here?
-
- : PS - I sure hope that those Amiga users still using ECS or AGA and
- : 68020s will actually buy PPC Amigas. If people insist on hanging onto
- : hopelessly out of date hardware for years and years, the Amiga market
- : *will* die completely.
-
- Maybe. If I have the cash, and if it's worth my attention.
-
- Matt Harrell
-