lame benchmarks (pun intended)

[vox]

So we know two things:
- Altivec use is great and speeds up some multimedia demanding tasks 2x
- X1000 is champion in same fair category of non altivec use, in this case. Good, so its worthwhile after all as "new miggy champ"

[vox]

The 10+ year old 500MHz PowerMac is beating the AmigaOne 500, too. Oh the humanity!

Its clear AMCC CPUs are not performance wise and meant for integrated combos and not desktops. Or software is just not optimized for them since they should have multimedia instructions of their own but not as standard as Altivec (have 24 additional digital signal processing instructions). However, SAM460 does make good use of fast RAM, SATA and PCI-E and will try to balance the loss there to make it overall feel the same / faster execept in any CPU intensive tasks.

Previous benches like Ragemem tests at AW,nt showed it, but not that 500Mhz G4 can beat SAM 460 http://httwww.amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?forum=14&topic_id=32815&viewmode=thread&order=0

That is a bit surprising!

[vox]

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Please use Linux Mint 11 on both
http://mintppc.org/
Or Debian Wheezy on both and redo the math.

Looking forward to compare those tests to these and let us know of how much space there is for MOS and OS4 to grow on same hardware.

[vox]

benchmarks w/lame... how 1999 of you.

 please do MINT tests. You can run Mint 11 on all PPC Macs and X1000
64 bit on X1000, 32 bit on MacsPPC, just to get the right tech use.

http://www.mintppc.org/content/user-experiences
http://www.mintppc.org/forums/viewfo...6ff6341813fe07