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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: How would the 68030 & 68882 @ 25 MHz compare with 80486 @ 25 MHz ?
Message-ID: <11284@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 3 May 90 16:52:06 GMT
References: <1990May2.223658.24827@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990May2.223658.24827@watdragon.waterloo.edu> grwalter@uwaterloo.ca (Fred Walter) writes:
>Just curious : how will the 68030 & 68882 @ 25 MHz compare (performance
>wise; dhrystones, whetstones, MIPS, etc.) with a 80486 @ 25 MHz with a
>reasonably sized cache ?

The 486 is roughly a tad less than twice the speed of the 68030, integer
wise, at the same clock speed.  For floating point it's noticably better
than twice as fast.

The 68040 is expected to be closer to three times the 68030 integer speed,
and up to ten times faster at floating point.

>	fred


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