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- From: wagner@grace.math.uh.edu (David Wagner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Motorola's 68060 for the Mac
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 08:54:37
- Organization: UH Dept of Math
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- In-reply-to: noah@apple.com's message of 20 Jan 93 16:14:40 GMT
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- "Noah" == Noah Price <noah@apple.com> writes:
-
- Noah> I recently got the Fall 92 issue of a little newsletter called
- Noah> "68K Connection." It says Vol 1 Issue 1, so I guess it's the
- Noah> first. In any case, they had a table summarizing the M68000
- Noah> family. It had columns for 68000, 68020, 68030, 68040, and
- Noah> 68060.
-
- Noah> In that table, they listed the following info about the 060.
- Noah> I'm sure this has all been published before, but here it is
- Noah> straight from a public Moto brochure.
-
- Noah> MIPS 100+ (vs. 39 for the 040)
- Noah> MFLOPS 12 (vs. 3.5 for the 040)
-
- We hear this 3-3.5 MFLOP number for the 040 frequently, but
- has anybody achieved this with a real Quadra (or even a
- real NextStation) and a real fortran or C compiler? The best
- I've seen is 1.6 MFLOPs (This was for a 25 MHz Radius Rocket.
- The benchmark was compiled and run for me by Absoft.)
-
- The benchmark that I ran was not the standard LINPACK benchmark,
- but involved a conjugate-gradients solver for a large sparse
- matrix. It's more memory-access intensive than the standard LINPACK
- benchmark, so a Quadra with an external cache might do much better.
-
- David H. Wagner
- You didn't hear it from me!
-