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[News] Yet another PCI-board for AmigaANN.lu
Posted on 24-Sep-2000 14:33 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä14 comments
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As rumoured, DCE are also working on a PCI implementation for the Amiga. The board will connect to a CyberstormPPC/mk III card in big box Amigas and to a BlizzardPPC card in an A1200. A Voodoo3 graphics card will also be available. Here's the press release from amiga-news.de (in german).

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Comment 1Anonymous23-Sep-2000 22:00 GMT
Comment 2Daniel Allsopp23-Sep-2000 22:00 GMT
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Comment 5Sharwin & Rakesh Raghoebardayal23-Sep-2000 22:00 GMT
Comment 6George23-Sep-2000 22:00 GMT
Yet another PCI-board for Amiga : Comment 7 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by Amifan on 23-Sep-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (Sharwin & Rakesh Raghoebardayal):
This would only appear when you're using a CPU demanding 68k program and a cpu demanding PPC program at the same time...
and there's always a priority meganism.
a G3 300Mhz "only" 25% faster then a 233Mhz 604e???
Are your calculations based on clockspeeds??
Ever used sspeed to calculate your mips and flops, and compared it to the performance of the same PPC CPU WITH L2 cache??
Another thing: The perfomance of the 604e on the IBM PPC site are based on 604e's with a 83Mhz FSB.
Some cyberstormPPC's have only a 50Mhz FSB....
Only 25 % doesn't sound much on below 100MIPS (060/50) systems, but remember that a G3 500Mhz does more then 1.2 GIPS (giga instuctions per second) so 25%300MIPS! that's almost 4 times the MIPS of a 060 (80 MIPS).
Take a G4.....it can do both GIPS and GFLOPS.....
You can find on IBM's PPC perfomance page that a 740 (G3 without L2 controller) 300Mhz without L2 cache can do 642MIPS.
Can someone run Sysspeed on a 604e 233Mhz and place a comment with the MIPS and FLOPS??
I need a fast G3/G4 card WITH L2 cache. 400Mhz and up.
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