252u3129@fergvax.unl.edu (Mike Gleason) (10/11/90)
A friend of mine recently was bragging that an A3000/25/50 running the AMAX-II mac plus emulator was leaving various Mac II's in the dust. They were running Speedometer 2.5 and came up with following results: KWhets/sec: 882.4 (using FPU) 39.4 (not using FPU) Dhrys/sec: 2871 FPU, 2717 not Sieve: 3.70 sec FPU, 3.83 sec Savage err: 7.988e-10, 2.297e-11 Savage time: 8.52 sec FPU, 71.43 sec Savage iterations: 25000 FPU, 5000 CPU test: 6.40 (no FPU) Math: 95.27 FPU, 5.24 Performance: 5.42 (no FPU) Of course he was comparing it to relatively slow Mac II's like the cx. Would someone with a IIFX screamer post some results so I can show my haughty amiga friend up? If someone has a souped up mac that would be faster than an fx, post 'em. Hmm, why not make this the world's fastest 680x0 machine contest? _____________________________________________________________________________ * Mike Gleason 252u3129@fergvax.unl.edu * "Don't you f*ckin' look at me!" -- D. Hopper cosc006@unlcdc2.unl.edu
cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) (10/11/90)
In article <1990Oct10.222343.8737@hoss.unl.edu> 252u3129@fergvax.unl.edu (Mike Gleason) writes: >A friend of mine recently was bragging that an A3000/25/50 running the >AMAX-II mac plus emulator was leaving various Mac II's in the dust. >They were running Speedometer 2.5 and came up with following results: > >KWhets/sec: 882.4 (using FPU) 39.4 (not using FPU) >Dhrys/sec: 2871 FPU, 2717 not >Sieve: 3.70 sec FPU, 3.83 sec >Savage err: 7.988e-10, 2.297e-11 >Savage time: 8.52 sec FPU, 71.43 sec >Savage iterations: 25000 FPU, 5000 > >CPU test: 6.40 (no FPU) >Math: 95.27 FPU, 5.24 >Performance: 5.42 (no FPU) I'd be curious to see how various Macs performed. > >Of course he was comparing it to relatively slow Mac II's like the cx. >Would someone with a IIFX screamer post some results so I can show my >haughty amiga friend up? If someone has a souped up mac that would be You might end up looking a little silly when you realize that you could have THREE complete A3000/50/25mhz machines (with COLOR monitors) for the price of one IIfx color system. >faster than an fx, post 'em. Hmm, why not make this the world's >fastest 680x0 machine contest? I'm sure the winner wouldn't be a Mac or an Amiga. Probably, one of the screamer workstations would win. >_____________________________________________________________________________ > * Mike Gleason 252u3129@fergvax.unl.edu > * "Don't you f*ckin' look at me!" -- D. Hopper cosc006@unlcdc2.unl.edu ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ OK, I won't! :-) Cheers, Chris ------------------------------+--------------------------- Chris Mauritz |D{r det finns en |l, finns cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu |det en plan! (c)All rights reserved. | Send flames to /dev/null | ------------------------------+---------------------------
kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt) (10/11/90)
In article <1990Oct10.222343.8737@hoss.unl.edu> 252u3129@fergvax.unl.edu (Mike Gleason) writes: > Hmm, why not make this the world's >fastest 680x0 machine contest? I refer you to article 47427@mcdchg.mcd.mot.com in the comp.newprod group, dated today: The MYRIAS SPS-3, using 32 68040's, running at 50Mhz. -- _ Kevin D. Quitt demott!kdq kdq@demott.com DeMott Electronics Co. 14707 Keswick St. Van Nuys, CA 91405-1266 VOICE (818) 988-4975 FAX (818) 997-1190 MODEM (818) 997-4496 PEP last 96.37% of all statistics are made up.
carsup@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Fisher Library support) (10/11/90)
In article <1990Oct10.222343.8737@hoss.unl.edu> 252u3129@fergvax.unl.edu (Mike Gleason) writes: >A friend of mine recently was bragging that an A3000/25/50 running the >AMAX-II mac plus emulator was leaving various Mac II's in the dust. >They were running Speedometer 2.5 and came up with following results: > >KWhets/sec: 882.4 (using FPU) 39.4 (not using FPU) >Dhrys/sec: 2871 FPU, 2717 not >Sieve: 3.70 sec FPU, 3.83 sec >Savage err: 7.988e-10, 2.297e-11 >Savage time: 8.52 sec FPU, 71.43 sec >Savage iterations: 25000 FPU, 5000 > >CPU test: 6.40 (no FPU) >Math: 95.27 FPU, 5.24 >Performance: 5.42 (no FPU) > >Of course he was comparing it to relatively slow Mac II's like the cx. >Would someone with a IIFX screamer post some results so I can show my >haughty amiga friend up? If someone has a souped up mac that would be >faster than an fx, post 'em. Hmm, why not make this the world's >fastest 680x0 machine contest? Since when have we Mac users been denegraded into comparing MHz, MIPs and megaflops. What happened to the Macintosh advantage? Surely given that a machine such as powerful as the Amiga 3000 described wouldn't change you from a Mac to Amiga user... :) On the other hand, I'm dying to find out too, so please do us all a favour. Afterall, how can you push the Mac's advantages when you don't know the competition's? No matter what tho', nothing's going to change my liking for the Mac, nothing that is, unless it's black... Regards, Norton Chia Micro Support (carsup@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU)
Patrick.Hayes@cediag.bull.fr (Patrick Hayes) (10/12/90)
In article <1990Oct10.222343.8737@hoss.unl.edu> 252u3129@fergvax.unl.edu (Mike Gleason) writes: >A friend of mine recently was bragging that an A3000/25/50 running the >AMAX-II mac plus emulator was leaving various Mac II's in the dust. Kindly ask this friend of yours to benchmark some color-quickdraw apps, will you? This setup is STILL equivalent to a mac + with an accelerator -- as far as Mac functionality is concerned... Pat -- +-------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | Patrick Hayes | EMail : Patrick.Hayes@cediag.bull.fr | | BULL CEDIAG | or hayes@bull.fr | | 68, Route de Versailles | or ...!mcvax!inria!bullfr!hayes | | F-78430 Louveciennes FRANCE | Tel : (33 1) 39 02 49 55 | +-------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
252u3129@fergvax.unl.edu (Mike Gleason) (10/13/90)
Here are the benchmarks I have received thru the mail for a IIfx. To give
you an idea how heinously fast the beast is, I'll put the results of my
humdrum Mac+ next to it:
IIfx: Mac+:
KWhets/sec: 202.0 (1500.0 with FPU) 5.8
Dhrys/sec: 11111.1 768.0
CPU Test: 12.2 0.85
Math Test: 26.8 (with FPU, off scale!) 0.78
Performance: 13.7 0.80
Sigh...
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* Mike Gleason 252u3129@fergvax.unl.edu
* "Don't you f*ckin' look at me!" -- D. Hopper cosc006@unlcdc2.unl.edu