stevel@phred.UUCP (Steve Leach) (06/05/90)
Hello Net;
FYI, Using PC Magazine's test application for MSWindows I got the following
results. This application is called Display Information, version 1.20
written by C. Petzold. I must note that I did get the warning about this
app not being win3.0 compatible but ran it anyway.
The Box I ran it on:
EPSON equity 386/20
4 Meg ram
NEC/MultiSync 2A
90Meg ESDI harddrive
This box hits the following benchmarks at the C:\> prompt
4042 Dhrystones
81.8 Whetstones
2.52 Mips
22.0 Mhz Landmark
The setup:
The program manager or MSDOS Exec was iconed and the only
application running was the PC Magazine tests. Options
were 1000 executions per test. ie: 1000 lines, 1000 rect...
All results are given in milliseconds.
The results:
win286/v2.11 win3.0 win3.0
in 640x480 in 640x480 in 800x600
Lines 2.4 4.2 4.4
Rectangles 6.9 9.0 9.8
Ellipses 52.3 60.0 60.7
BitBlt 3.5 4.5 4.8
StretchBlt 173.0 88.8 93.4
Scroll 5.3 6.7 7.0
Fill 25.5 29.9 30.5
Your mileage may very, Enjoy.
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| \!sumax!amc-gw!/larry@csccat.UUCP (Larry Spence) (06/06/90)
In article <3118@phred.UUCP> stevel@phred.UUCP (Steve Leach) writes: > >FYI, Using PC Magazine's test application for MSWindows I got the following >results. This application is called Display Information, version 1.20 >written by C. Petzold. > >The results: > win286/v2.11 win3.0 win3.0 > in 640x480 in 640x480 in 800x600 >Lines 2.4 4.2 4.4 >Rectangles 6.9 9.0 9.8 > [ ... etc., Win 2.11 generally won over 3.0 ... ] This isn't really fair. The PC Mag benchmark measures atomic, low-level screen-drawing throughput, not overall system throughput. Although I was a little surprised that things like line-drawing were _that_ much slower, keep in mind that the main performance increases are at the application level. In other words, the larger amount of available memory makes _most_ non-trivial apps run faster. Our app, a large (> 1 MB EXE) drawing program, runs _much_ faster, especially when heavily loaded (complex graphics). I doubt if the PC Mag benchmarks even cause any code swapping while they're executing. I don't know if they've got a 3.0-compatible version out yet. The other thing is that if the benchmarks aren't 3.0-compatible, then you might have been running in real mode (?). Due to the larger system code in 3.0, I would expect performance to drop in real mode, due to less available RAM. What I would like to see is a protected-mode benchmark of 3.0-compatible apps like PageMaker, Excel, Arts & Letters (our app :> ), etc. Things like "time to load and draw large publication," "time to zoom and redraw," etc. Our experience has been that many apps that were squeezed for memory in 2.X now run very smoothly in 3.0 with some extra RAM (say, an extra 1 or 2 MB over 640KB), even with other apps opened at the same time. -- Larry Spence larry@csccat ...{texbell,texsun}!csccat!larry
stevel@phred.UUCP (Steve Leach) (06/07/90)
Hello Net;
Sorry for the repost but it was pointed out to me that I neglected to
state which mode was used while running win3.0, the chart now includes
the mode.
FYI, Using PC Magazine's test application for MSWindows I got the following
results. This application is called Display Information, version 1.20
written by C. Petzold. I must note that I did get the warning about this
app not being win3.0 compatible but ran it anyway.
The Box I ran it on:
EPSON equity 386/20
4 Meg ram
NEC/MultiSync 2A
90Meg ESDI harddrive
This box hits the following benchmarks at the C:\> prompt
4042 Dhrystones
81.8 Whetstones
2.52 Mips
22.0 Mhz Landmark
The setup:
The program manager or MSDOS Exec was iconed and the only
application running was the PC Magazine tests. Options
were 1000 executions per test. ie: 1000 lines, 1000 rect...
All results are given in milliseconds.
The results:
win286/v2.11 win3.0 win3.0 win3.0 win3.0
640x480 640x480 640x480 640x480 800x600
real mode std mode 386Enh mode 386Enh mode
Lines 2.4 3.6 4.0 4.2 4.4
Rectangles 6.9 8.6 9.3 9.0 9.8
Ellipses 52.3 50.4 59.3 60.0 60.7
BitBlt 3.5 4.1 4.2 4.5 4.8
StretchBlt 173.0 86.1 90.1 88.8 93.4
Scroll 5.3 5.7 6.3 6.7 7.0
Fill 25.5 28.8 29.3 29.9 30.5
Your mileage may very, Enjoy.
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