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- Subject: Re: A3010 views
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.054336.16351@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
- From: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 05:43:36 GMT
- Sender: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
- References: <1992Sep11.125858.23174@rdg.dec.com> <1992Sep11.155127.28795@rdg.dec.com>
- Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland
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- cadwallader@forty2.enet.dec.com () writes:
- >When I first had my "taste" of an Arc "doing something" more than just
- >sitting in a shop switched on - I expected a REAL treat because of all the
- >RISC chip hype. I had obviously underestimated the power of the Amiga's
- >dedicated chips because the huge gulf I expected to see between the 2
- >machines was virtually non-existent.
-
- It really depends what you are doing. The Amiga 500, when compared to the
- ARM-2 (8MHz) powered Arcs is pitiful in processing power, but if you compare
- almost any *graphics* based application, the Amiga holds its own because of
- its graphics hardware. Thus, demos and games on the Amiga are about equivalent
- to those on an 8MHzArm2. (leaving aside little matters like being able to
- plot to different bitplanes, 32-colour mode (amiga) or 256 colour mode (arc)
- that make obvious differences in some areas)
-
- Obviously, a 12MHz Arm-250 powered machine is going to be a bit faster still,
- so it should be able to do a bit more in most cases than an Amiga 500... I
- don't know about the performance differnce between an Amiga 500 & 600...
-
- Comparing a 25MHz 030 powered Amiga to the A5000, again, the A5000 will blow
- it away for raw processing power, but probably be roughly equvalent in
- the graphics areas.
-
- Conclusion: The Arcs are a lot faster, but most of the comparison one
- sees is that they both just manage to pump out the graphics on such-and-such
- a game, or on such-and-such a demo, with no free cpu time left over on either
- machine!
-
- This is a comparison of the low-end machines only. Higher end Amigas will be
- faster... but they also cost more.
- I think that comparing the Amiga600 to the A3010 is probably a bit daft -
- sure the 3010 costs more, but it is a lot faster. (So what if it doesn't
- run 'bigger, better, faster' games - it may only be equal in this area, but
- try compiling some code, editing a DTP document, etc: Anything that forces
- all the workload onto the main processor, and the (low-end) Amiga just doesn't
- come close.)
-
- [Note: This comparison ios based upon my experience of the Amiga 500, and I
- don't know what the performance difference between this and the 600 is, so
- it is possible (likely) that the performance gap isn't quite as large as
- between Arc310 and Amiga500]
-
- --
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