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- > The Falcon has a peticular faster BUS to ST-RAM than the Amiga1200 has to it's
- > ChipRAM (equivalent of ST-RAM). The Amiga1200 has about half the access speed
- > to ChipRAM than the Falcon has to ST-RAM. I think the figures are something
-
- I believe this is a myth, although well spread in the Atari community.
-
- > like 8.2 MB/s ST-RAM (Falcon@16Mhz) and 4.5 MB/s ChipRAM (Amiga1200@14Mhz).
-
- When I first got my Falcon, I ran several tests which didn't show anything
- close to that speed. A program I found on my hard drive today claims to
- reach 6.0 Mbyte/s (read) in 320x240x2 (monochrome) mode and 3.8 Mbyte/s in
- 640x480x256 or 320x240xTC, which is close to what I remembered.
- (This is all on a VGA monitor.)
-
- The program does eight 'movem.l (a0)+,a2-a5' in a tight loop, which shouldn't
- be off by much from the maximum possible speed.
-
-
- Only a few days ago there were some numbers on c.s.amiga.programmer that
- could've been used to get figures for that machine, but I've lost those
- articles now. Perhaps someone else can find them, they were testing a bunch
- of c2p routines on different hardware.
- Still, they're talking about an accelerator bord that manages to copy
- 4 Mbyte/s to ChipRAM (256 colour mode, lowres) and that is apparently very
- slow for such as board.
- From this and some other data, I'd say that the Amiga can write at least
- 6 Mbyte/s to ChipRAM.
- At least as much as the Falcon in other words.
-
- > And an Amiga1200 has a 68020 CPU, which has a smaller cache, hence a bit slower
- > in general performance. Of course most 1200's are accelerated in some way
- > or another.
-
- The lack of a 256 byte data cache shouldn't matter much for BAD MOOD, but
- in general the '030 is slightly faster as you say.
-
-
- > Maybe we could write something like :
- >
- > "(Without the DSP this machine is similar to a non-FastRAM A1200 with a
- > 16 Mhz 68030 with a _slightly_ faster main-BUS)"
-
- But there probably aren't any Amigas like that and I don't believe it
- about the bus anyway.
-
- I think it's quite reasonable to interpret 'similar' as 'within 30% or so'.
-
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