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From: rick@tmiuv0.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Motorola vs Intel (who's faster?)
Message-ID: <3758@tmiuv0.uucp>
Date: 30 Jul 90 11:45:40 GMT
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In article <4303@azure10.UUCP>, dusek@motcid.UUCP (James P. Dusek) writes:
> wizard@sosaria.imp.com (Chris Brand) writes:
> 
>>Yes! I'd love to see once exactly how fast all these chips are (80286,
>>68000, 80386, 68020, 80486, 68040). 

[...]

> 	A 50 Mhz 68030 blows away any intel chip to date.(You can say
> i'm partial to Motorola chips because i work for them :) ).I hear INTEL
> is comming out with a faster 486 at around 40Mhz+ speed.Meanwhile
> Motorola is just releasing the 040 cpu that puts INTEL even further behind.
> If you're intersted in performance of the Amiga equipped with fast 030's
> the currant Amazing Computing has performance results of several 030 boards.
> (they all cost $$$$$$$$)

In any comparison, let's make sure that we compare apples to apples (sorry
about that 8-)).  By that I mean, let's compare CISC processors to CISC
processors and RISC to RISC.  Even then, the comparisons aren't valid, since
the architectures of the computers the chips are in affect the benchmarks to
a great degree.  For example, a 68000-based Amiga kicks a Mac's rear due to
the custom chips in the Amiga, where the Mac does everything (almost) with
the 68000.  Even if they're run at the same clock speed.  See what I mean?
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