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On Sat, 27 May 1995, John Crookshank, MicroTech Solutions, Inc. wrote:

> Sorry, but the Warp Engine is indeed an average of 3 times faster than
> the stock 4000/040. I've tested both the now defunct GVP 040 and the Warp
> Engine 040, and found them to be virtually identical in terms of speed in
> our A4000, using 4 different scenes from Lightwave.

Just to throw a few pennies of my own into this conversation, I have a
GVP 33mhz 040 acclerator in my A2000 and a Warp Engine 28mhz 040 in my
A3000 and I've compared render benchmarks to the A4000 25mhz 040....

The GVP accelerator is a little more than 2 times faster than the A4000,
while the Warp Engine, even though it has a slower chip, is SLIGHTLY
faster than the GVP accelerator....an example would be a scene that took
30 minutes to render on the 25mhz A4000 would take 14 minutes to render on
the 33mhz A2000 and would take about 13 minutes 45 seconds to render on
the 28mhz A3000.  I have to assume that that memory access is faster in
the Warped A3000 as well as the SCSI hard drives saves.

I certainly would have expected much faster rendering from a 50mhz 060
chip...but maybe we'll hafta wait for someone to optimize the 060's math
functions or maybe the 66mhz version of the 060.

Actually, I was under the impression that software would have to be
rewritten somewhat to take full advantage of the 060's power...again,
bringing up the optimization of math functions.

How much is the Cyberstorm 060 and Warp Engine 060 accelerators?  Are
they available for the A2000 or A3000 yet?


                                      -David Warner
                                       Event Horizon Graphics


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