home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: nyx.cs.du.edu!not-for-mail
- From: kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 8 Apr 1996 17:58:26 -0600
- Organization: University of Denver, Math/CS Dept.
- Message-ID: <4kc972$mvb@nyx.cs.du.edu>
- References: <3134A895.193E@sound.net> <DnJt9y.9A9@news.tcd.ie> <0099FBB0.EDB774F4@netins.net> <1996Mar23.102016.53522@cobra.uni.edu> <0099FE29.C6FFAF18@netins.net> <315a1255.6289762@news.onramp.net> <4kbddo$1na@news.uni-c.dk>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: nyx.nyx.net
- X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV)
-
- c948374@hald.gbar.dtu.dk (Rask Ingemann Lambertsen) writes:
-
- >On Mon, 01 Apr 1996 00:51:39 GMT David Corn (dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com) wrote:
- >> On 26 Mar 1996 05:15:43 GMT, tempest@netins.net wrote:
-
-
- >A Pentium 120 doesn't have twice the performance of an 060.
- >Get some facts and rerun your calculation. And try avoiding
- >division :-)
-
- According to Motorola, the (unreleased) '060-66 is slower than both the
- Pentium-66 and 601-66 in integer and slightly faster than the Pentium-66
- in floating point. A pentium-120 is more than twice as fast as an '060-50.
-
- Even according to Amiga Shopper the '060-50 is only a little more than
- twice as fast as an '040-28:
- Straight from Amiga Shopper:
- LightWave (time for a hi-res render with shadows)
- Warp Engine 68040 / 28Mhz 940 seconds
- Warp Engine 68040 / 33Mhz 807 seconds
- CyberStorm 68060 / 50Mhz 407 seconds
- Imagine (hi-res scanline render)
- Warp Engine 68040 / 28Mhz 289 seconds
- Warp Engine 68040 / 33Mhz 251 seconds
- CyberStorm 68060 / 50Mhz 119 seconds
-
- Certainly doesn't seem like the speed increase is worth over $1000
-