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From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas)
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Subject: Re: Amiga World review about A3000
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Date: 6 May 90 01:56:14 GMT
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In article <13271@venera.isi.edu> rod@venera.isi.edu (Rodney Doyle Van Meter III) writes:
>Now that the 3000 has been announced, how does it compare performance-wise
>to some of these things?

Well, if you're willing to buy a MacIIci, then the Amiga3000 is a
candidate.  

>I know, it's always apples and oranges, but
>do we have anything resembling Dhrystones (or even just a MIPS figure)
>for the 3000? For that matter, what about the 2000?

Well, Mr. Benchmark here :)...
I seem to recall somewhere between 1100 and 1600 Dhrys for the stock machine
and somewhere around 7000-11000 for the 25/33Mhz 68030 from GVP.  I'd
expect the numbers to be in that area.  Would someone out there *please*
do a test for us and let us know?  I'd do it myself but the local A3000 has
a nasty ole heating problem :(

>I'm lost enough on this topic that I'm not even sure how a stock 2000
>compares to, say, a 286 AT (or, presumably, 386SX). Anybody got any numbers?

Well, let's quote a few more numbers :)  The "slow" Fast to CHIP transfers
on an A3000 run about 4 times as fast as into a VGA card.

Also, many stock 386's don't come with math chips.  The 68882 is a *darn*
fast chip.

Of course, most OS's you could *afford*/want to run on an IBM are 8-bit OS's,
so that's just silly performance-wise.

>Of course, we all know that with low-overhead multitasking, the ECS, etc.
>that the Amiga makes better use of its native horsepower.

I think in this respect that the A3000 HAS more horsepower :)  Except
maybe color-wise :( :(  Oh well, hope your friend doesn't need to do much
CAD design :)...

>			--Rod

David Navas                                   navas@cory.berkeley.edu
"Excuse my ignorance, but I've been run over by my train of thought."  -me