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- On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Johan Klockars wrote:
-
- > > 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.)
-
- I've tested it too, with a program called MEMSPEED.TTP. And in 640x480 2
- cols, it says 8 MB/s.
-
- > 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.
-
- Strange that you get those figures.
-
- > 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.
-
- They're partly right. But a guy I'm working with at uni, tells me that
- the normal figure for ChipRAM is about 5 MB/s.
-
- > >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.
-
- Then how come that the 256 640x480 mode is useless on the Amiga1200 ie.
- slow ?
-
- Anyway, there's a 3D graphic card on the way for the Amiga (with
- Zorro-bus), which should indeed be capeable enough.
-
- > > 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.
-
- Is that because the 68030 does all the texture-mapping ?
-
- Hence too much data to be within the cache ?
-
- > > 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'.
-
- Yeah ok, maybe you're right :-)
-
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