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From: Manuel Coats <mcoats@qnet.com>
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Subject: Re: RAPTOR 3's Processer-Independent technology?
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On Fri, 14 Apr 1995, David Kim wrote:
>
> According to a performance comparison chart sent to me by DeskStation
> Technology, a Raptor 3 workstation with the 5/300 (Alpha 21164/300) CPU
> module installed is approximately:
>
> 61 times faster than an Amiga A4000/040/25
> 51 times faster than a Pentium 90
> 31 times faster than a Raptor IIA (Alpha 21064A/275)
Are those figures correct? That would mean that a 90 Mhz penitum is
barely faster than a stock Amiga 4000 (16.4% faster to exact). This
cannot be right when a pentium can render out a LW scene 4-8 times faster
than that same amiga. How did you come to the above figures?
Manny