Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!motcid!dusek
From: dusek@motcid.UUCP (James P. Dusek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Motorola vs Intel (who's faster?)
Keywords: Amiga runs at 3.5 MHZ?
Message-ID: <3942@azure8.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jul 90 18:35:58 GMT
References: <1990Jul10.055108.22796@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL
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joechung@sandstorm.Berkeley.EDU (Joseph) writes:

>A friend of mine said the other day that Motorola rates its CPU's twice as
>fast.  So in effect, my Amiga's running at a little over 3.5 MHZ.

	I don`t know where he got his information from but he`s wrong.
You`re 68000 cpu is running at 7.1MHZ.

>One of the reason he sights is that: Motorola & Intel are about the same
>level in technology, and yet Motorola has come out with a 50MHZ chip already
>while Intel is still around 33MHZ.  Therefore, the actual speed of the
>Motorola chips are 1/2 what the manufacturer says.

	Motorola has 30MHZ 68030's,but were able to get the speed up
to 50MHZ.Just because Intel can't do it doesn't mean Motorola can't.
That rating really is just the maximum clock speed the chip will run at.
The really important rating is MIPS.MIPS are how many instructions a 
machine runs per second.Higher clock speeds mean higher mips.

	BUT a 68030 at 33MHZ and an Intell 80386 at 33MHZ will not
have the same mips performance.Lacking the apporite data book right 
now i can't tell u what they are,maybe somebody else can.All this means 
is look past the clock speed when u look at a chip.MegHz's don't make 
a chip,the just help speed thigs up.


				James Dusek

				Motorola FSD.