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From: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The 68050 - end of the 680x0? (was Re: The Amiga's Future)
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Date: 14 Jun 91 19:05:00 GMT
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torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>  I've never seen twice the performance in CPU intensive applications.
>Just as an example, the Speedometer benchmark on an original Mac II clocks
>the CPU as 3.49, and my IIci as 6.71.  Adjusting for clock speed, that's only
>a 25% improvement.

Well, my benchmark programs for my old 2620 board showed it as 3.5x the speed
of a stock Amiga, and my 2630 card (030) using the same benchmark get's 10x
the speed of a stock Amiga.  the 20 card is 16Mhz, the 30 is 25 Mhz, adjusting
for speed that's about 2x the performance.

Apple is NOTORIOUS for breaking things so that they can sell you a better
version later.  this is why i believe the first 040 macs will be 16 Mhz.  so
they can sell you a 25 Mhz later..

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