Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!ogicse!cs.uoregon.edu!storm!bostrov From: bostrov@storm.UUCP (Vareck Bostrom) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A3000UX competition Message-ID: <676@storm.UUCP> Date: 7 Dec 90 05:57:10 GMT References: <6057@crash.cts.com> <1990Dec5.061558.21893@engin.umich.edu> Reply-To: bostrov@storm.UUCP (Vareck Bostrom) Organization: storm UUCP, Eugene, Oregon, United States Lines: 36 In article eachus@linus.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) writes: >In article <1990Dec5.061558.21893@engin.umich.edu> gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes: > > Preposterous. The 68040 at 25 MHz is MUCH faster than ANY 68030. > I'd like to see the benchmarks and results you used. What Though I do favor the NeXT over the Ami, I must say, that statement is incorrect. The 68040 is NOT "MUCH" faster than ANY 68030, at least not in interger performance. The 68040 / 25 gets around 23000 dhrys / second, I have tested a 68030 / 50 MHz (scion.cs.orst.edu, a HP 9000/375 -- reguardless of what nslookup says) and that gets 20000-22000 dhrys. Yes, the 25mhz 040 is faster than the 50 mhz 030, but BARELY faster. Now, if you are talking about floating point, you are absoultly correct, the 68040/25 gets between 2.0 and 3.3 MFLOPS, the 68882 at 50 mhz gets about 0.4 MFLOPS. Raytraceing on the 040 next seems to be VERY fast, MUCH MUCH faster than any 030, true. MUCH faster than the ss-1+ (SPARC+Weitek 3170 at 25 MHz) in fact. And a bit slower than the HP9000/845, and MUCH slower than an Ardent Titan-3 with vector. (Also MUCH slower than a IBM RS/6000 POWER system, but hey, it runs AIX (puke here) so who cares!?). Anyway, I can't wait for the 60 MHz 040. Or the 60 MHz POWER, for that matter. Wouldn't that be interesting, as 20 MHz POWER blasts everything already. Later. - Vareck Bostrom ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++ Vareck Bostrom ++ ++ bostrov@mist.cs.orst.edu ++ ++ bostrov%storm@cs.uoregon.edu ++ ++ ++ ++ All this signifigance ++ ++ what does it mean? ++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++