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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Benchmarks (was: Re: A2620)
Message-ID: <7084@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jun 89 03:23:51 GMT
References: <780@corpane.UUCP>
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <780@corpane.UUCP>, sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) says:
> Summary: help me obiwan.

> A friend of mine is accusing me of being on the Dark Side of the Force, because
> I am a Motorola fan (Strictly Amiga :-) and he claims that the Side of Light
> and Honor is the Great Intel. So could all you Jedi's out there help me out?

To use an older frame of reference, consider this.  Intel's logo is always 
printed in BLUE.  Their cohort and main supported is called "BIG BLUE".  Only
680x0 machines (expecially, but not exclusively Amigas) have the power to
create the music that can drive away these "meanies".  So rest assured that
you're on the side of goodness and light.

> What I want is some UNBIASED benchmarks (any kind, dhrystones would be fine)
> on the Amiga2000 , the Amiga 2500, and the 68030 version. If you also have data
> on the 80286, -386, -486, to compare it to, it would be appreciated also.

I get 11,000 Dhrystones on a specially tuned 33MHz 68030 system (apparently
the GVP folks do too), but don't expect to see on from Amiga Real Soon Now --
the A2630 will be shipping at 25MHz (roughly 7,000 Dhrystones so far, but I
have yet to put Roger's Lattice V5.02 compiler switches into my makefile;
they seem to do the A2620 considerably more justice that I've been doing it).

Realize also that [A] most of the Evil machines are running a single tasking
OS, [B] that kind of machine looks better than our when running "small-model"
code, far worse when running "large-model" code, and [C] raw integer performance
is only one aspect of system performance; things like hard disk performance
(the latest figure form our disk guru here is around 850k/sec, though the file
system) are also better on Amigas that most if not all of the Evil machines.

> John Sparks   |  {rutgers|uunet}!ukma!corpane!sparks | D.I.S.K. 24hrs 1200bps
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