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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: How would the 68030 & 68882 @ 25 MHz compare with 80486 @ 25 MHz ?
Message-ID: <1792@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 90 20:18:01 GMT
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daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:


>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.


A friend and I were doing some mixed up math on the above figures and here is
what we got :-)

If 1 040 = 3 030s and 1 486 = 2 030's, then

1 a 68040 based Amiga would equal 1 486 based clone with an Amiga 3000 thrown
in to help it out. 

Depending on the relative clock speeds of course.

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