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From: bdraschk@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Bernd Raschke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Fusion-40, the 68040 Card for A2000 avail...
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.150923.7519@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 27 Jun 91 15:09:23 GMT
References: <1991Jun20.114837.22962@unibi.uni-bielefeld.de> <1991Jun21.183207.27427@CAM.ORG> <1991Jun24.135145.27140@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <1991Jun27.103051.24576@CAM.ORG>
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menzies@CAM.ORG (Stephen Menzies) writes:

>Scene dis: solid color sphere on solid colored ground.
>Software: Imagine 1.1
>Render: Ray-trace with shadows.

>A3000/25.......................00:20:02
>A2000/50MHz GVP 030/882........00:10:59
>A3000/Progressive 040..........00:09:15 (Copyback ON)
>A2000/RCS Fusion-Forty.........00:06:30 (CopyBack ON)
Seems strange to me. Shouldn't an A3000 040-board be faster than an A2000
version? The CPU slot of an A2000 is 16bit, so the card has to have it's
memory on board, while the A3000 card has no own ram and uses the ram on
the mainboard. Is that fact responsible for the difference in speed?

Ciao,
	bernd
>--stephen
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