Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!njin!hubey From: hubey@pilot.njin.net (Hubey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Recommendations needed about A2500/30 as research workstation Message-ID: Date: 1 Mar 90 22:00:38 GMT References: <6623@cps3xx.UUCP> <2017@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM> <22494@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <9900@cbmvax.commodore.com> <9903@cbmvax.commodore.com> Distribution: usa Organization: NJ InterCampus Network, New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 32 In article <9903@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: > In article <9900@cbmvax.commodore.com> valentin@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Valentin Pepelea) writes: > Interestingly enough, the 80486 does win. But probably not by as much as > Intel would have the world believe. Personal Workstation magazine (nee MIPS) > did benchmarks recently on HP's 50MHz '030 system. At integer benchmarks, > they beat out every 25MHz '486 yet tested. The '486 always wins at floating > point over the 40MHz '882. So you can, if you like, say that a '486 is > roughly twice as fast as a 68030. > > >Valentin > I thought I should post some info from Inforworld, January 22, 1990: (Note: I am not disagreeing or agreeing with anyone. It's all FYI.) The performances below are at 25 MHz MC68040 Sun Sparc i80486 ------- --------- ------ 20 mips 18 mips 15 mips 3.5 mflops 1.2 mflops 1 mflops $795 $1,735 $950 # Chips one >five one mark -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- hubey@pilot.njin.net | hubey@apollo.montclair.edu | ...!rutgers!njin!hubey -----------------------------------------------------------------------------