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From: 6600dtam@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Marc "Tae-Kwon" Tamsky)
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Subject: Re: 040 CPU's
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Date: 3 Apr 91 01:41:55 GMT
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In article <40672@cup.portal.com> mslater@cup.portal.com (Michael Z Slater) writes:

>I don't believe these performance figures. The 68040 is at best about 4 times
>the speed of an 030 AT THE SAME CLOCK RATE.  A 25-MHz 040 is unlikely to
>be much better than twice the performance of a 40-MHz 030.

>Michael Slater, Microprocessor Report   mslater@cup.portal.com

I heard that the 68040 was almost 10 to 50 times faster in FPU intensive
applications..  Is this true?
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