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From: pochron@cat6.cs.wisc.edu (David Pochron)
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Subject: Re: A2630 questions (for Dave Haynie this time)
Summary: A2630 benchmarks & AmigaWord
Keywords: A2630 AmigaWorld
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Date: 23 Feb 90 23:32:50 GMT
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Speaking of the A2630 card...what's going on here in the March issue of
AmigaWorld where they benchmarked several '030 boards.  Here's what they
achieved using Turbo Silver:

     A2630          GVP25    GVP28    H2800     GVP33
     --------------------------------------------------
     61:04          36:38    33:52    39:46     31:26
     ^^
  What in the world is going on here?!?  All the other boards finished
rendering in roughly half the time that the A2630 board took.  The weird
thing is, all the other floating point tests gave similar results with respect
to all boards tested except for this test.  Is there something about the A2630
that makes it slower with TSilver, or did AmigaWorld just screw up somewhere?
Has anyone done their own benchmarks w/ TSilver using the GVP25 and A2630
cards?  Thanks!

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