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- From: nma95nbr@lustudat.student.lu.se (Niklas Brunlid)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 80 MIPS with Blizzard1260?
- Date: 15 Feb 1996 17:41:52 GMT
- Organization: Lund University
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- In article "Re: 80 MIPS with Blizzard1260?" Mason Taube said:
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- >"M. Krisell" <itp34@und.ida.liu.se> wrote:
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- >>Hi everybody!
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- >>I recently got a Blizzard1260 turbo board for my A1200.
- >>I had a 33 Mhz 68030 before, and everything is MUCH
- >>faster now. But...
-
- >>The manual says something about 80 MIPS, but according
- >>to SysInfo my system does "only" 39 MIPS.
- >>Could it be that my RAM isn't fast enough? I'm not
- >>sure but I think it is only 80ns or even slower.
- >>Will I get 80 MIPS if I get 60ns RAM?
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- >>Magnus.
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- > Depends on how you measure MIPS... What kind of mix of instructions
- >it's running...
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- > If you run 80 Million NOP Instructions Per Second, and each NOP takes
- >1 CPU cycle, you would run 40 million FOO instructions per second if
- >each FOO takes 2 CPU cycles. These are artificial numbers, but a MIPS
- >rating is an awefully poor way to measure system performance. You
- >should grab ahold of some benchmarking software and then compare it to
- >people who have fast machines.. Manufacturers usually do not present a
- >MIPS rating on a typical sequence of instructions to make themselves
- >look better..
-
- >Mason
-
-
- Exactly. Try AIBB, don't know ehere to get it though, but it seems to be a
- good tester... there are "modules" for it everywhere...
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- <tsb> F I S H E R M A N
- - Amiga since '89
- A1200 - Blizzard 1230IV/50/8Mb - 850Mb HD - Microvitec 1438
- Commodore :( PC20-III PSU ;) + Stereo, floppy, mouse, blahblah...
- Texas Instruments TI-85 & TI-92 graphing calculators
- nma95nbr@lustudat.student.lu.se
- <tsb> Random tag line coming up...
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- "They say there's dwarf mines under the Ramtops," she said
- inconsequentially. "My, but them little buggers is in for a surprise."
- -- Granny reflects on Esk's methods of lighting a fire.
- (Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites)
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