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Offline jeffimixTopic starter

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040/060
« on: June 28, 2003, 03:31:25 PM »
I'm wondering, I know the '040 is slower than an '060. But how significantly? The '060 cards are a pretty large price jump. I'm wondering how well both handle MPEGs/AVIs, and just general performance, I could care less about playing MP3s, I got a stereo.
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Re: 040/060
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2003, 03:53:47 PM »
The 060 can perform up to three (I think) instructions per clock cycle while the 040, AFAIK, can only do one.
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Re: 040/060
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2003, 09:23:47 PM »
My 68040@25 MHz does somewhere between 18-19 MIPS whilst my 68060@50 MHz does 66 MIPS.

So with some math you can see that the 68060 does significantly better.
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Re: 040/060
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2003, 10:59:52 PM »
For playing MPEG's/AVI's you'll notice a huge performance jump over an
040. If you have the chance, get the 060, you'll be better off.

When I had my A3000, I was running an 040/25 and a CyberVision64
(original) gfx card. It still was challenged playing mpeg's or avi's.

My friends 060 played them smoothly.

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Re: 040/060
« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2003, 12:41:09 AM »
Ok, we've established the '060 is significantly faster (it's also significantly costlier though :P )

The audio in these movies goes at about 55KBps, video around 100, the resolution is usually a little under 360x240. 29 Frames/sec.

I can make them into any format I want on my computer (I believe) so lets assume they're all MPEG's...

What's the minimum processor spec to run these at say, 15-20 frames a second. Can 040s do it? Can 030s do it (I wish)? Can 060s do it?

How baout an '050 ;)

My challenge for people who have these systems (or can do the math) to help me out, since I'm trying to figure out how cheap I can be (I'm not exactly in the possesion of endless cash)

Hmm, by the time I do get an accelerator, I'll probably get a Picasso or Opalvision card (graphics cards) so throw that on the heap too. (Is an OCS amiga,...)
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Re: 040/060
« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2003, 02:27:18 AM »
A bit off topic - you can play DivX on a 603e apparently.

If you can pick up a 2nd hand PPC accelerator for a reasonable price you might have some fun...
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Re: 040/060
« Reply #6 on: June 29, 2003, 05:17:52 AM »
I should point out that the OpalVision cards dont have RTG drivers (e.g. cybergraphx or picasso96), so most amiga applications probably cant use it.
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