060 real time speed

[AAACHIPSET]

using  amiga1200 how  realistic  speed increase is 060  in comparison  to o4o.
internet?  not many  games need  060...playin  dvd possible..

[Jiffy]

using  amiga1200 how  realistic  speed increase is 060  in comparison  to o4o.
internet?  not many  games need  060...playin  dvd possible..

If by internet you mean using a webbrowser: forget it. Utter and complete torture. This is not only because of the lack of speed of an 060, but also AGA not being fast enough to process all data. Combine this with ancient software, lacking basic features like CSS.

If by internet you mean ftp, e-mail and chat: no problem. Works great.

And playing a DVD? :-D

An 060 is very fast using classic Amigasoftware from the (early) 90-ies. It is more or less comparable to a Pentium 1 of about the same clockspeed.

[fishy_fiz]

68040 does 1.1 MIPS per clock, 68060 does 1.33.
A person also has to take into account that the '060 runs at a higher clock rate, plus its superscalar architecture. a 50mhz '060 is probably on average 1.5 times the speed of a 40mhz '040, but on occasion it's closr to 2x the speed. While higher clocked '060's are faster they dont scale well in some situations due to ram bandwidth being a bottleneck.
 
The difference is definately noticable, although dvd playback is still too much for an '060, especially when using aga.

[gertsy]

68040 does 1.1 MIPS per clock, 68060 does 1.33.
A person also has to take into account that the '060 runs at a higher clock rate, plus its superscalar architecture. a 50mhz '060 is probably on average 1.5 times the speed of a 40mhz '040, but on occasion it's closr to 2x the speed. While higher clocked '060's are faster they dont scale well in some situations due to ram bandwidth being a bottleneck.
 
The difference is definately noticable, although dvd playback is still too much for an '060, especially when using aga.

Ditto.

[AAACHIPSET]

68040 does 1.1 MIPS per clock, 68060 does 1.33.
A person also has to take into account that the '060 runs at a higher clock rate, plus its superscalar architecture. a 50mhz '060 is probably on average 1.5 times the speed of a 40mhz '040, but on occasion it's closr to 2x the speed. While higher clocked '060's are faster they dont scale well in some situations due to ram bandwidth being a bottleneck.
 
The difference is definately noticable, although dvd playback is still too much for an '060, especially when using aga.

curious  then...my  cd32 has  fmv card  plays vcd ok...any  1200 soft/hardware  capable of  same..

[Cosmos]

My 060 rev6 is working perfectly at 105 Mhz on my Apollo 1260 !

[Jiffy]

curious  then...my  cd32 has  fmv card  plays vcd ok...any  1200 soft/hardware  capable of  same..

Ehm... You do realise that, while the size of the discs may be identical, vcd is not identical to dvd?

Let me spell it out: you can not play dvd on an 060 equiped A1200, period.

[psxphill]

curious then...my cd32 has fmv card plays vcd ok...any 1200 soft/hardware capable of same..

Doesn't the CD32 FMV card use an mpeg decoder chip and a genlock to display the video? So get yourself a genlock and a DVD player with a control port and you'll have something similar.

[magnetic]

My 060 rev6 is working perfectly at 105 Mhz on my Apollo 1260 !

Wow..

If only we could speed up AGA somehow..

@PSXphil

What are you talking about? What does a genlock have to do with anything?

[Megamig]

Amiga custom hardware is good but not that good! Why would you want to watch DVDs on your computer when standalone DVD players are so cheap - hardly worth the effort

[fishy_fiz]

The FMV module contains an mpeg decoder chip, which is why it plays reasonable quality video.
As for playing videos on a classic amiga, I understand the appeal even if its not practical. It's quite fun, if tedious at times to convert videos to a format an upgraded amiga can cope ok with. DVD unfortunately just isnt one of those formats.

[AAACHIPSET]

i  do  realize  the dvd  vcd  difference..but  im  one  of  those  guys  who got  win3.1 working  on a a500 with  pctask ..its  a hobby..just  fun  to  do..