Is Amiga Emulation better than the real thing?

[Karlos]

But it isn't slower because of the faster memory bandwidth... in fact repainting the entire screen is faster.

Graphics memory bandwidth is measured in GB/s nowadays:

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karlos@Megaburken-II:~/NVIDIA_CUDA_SDK/bin/linux/release$ ./bandwidthTest
Running on......
      device 0:GeForce GTX 260
Quick Mode
Host to Device Bandwidth for Pageable memory
.
Transfer Size (Bytes) Bandwidth(MB/s)
 33554432 2473.4

Quick Mode
Device to Host Bandwidth for Pageable memory
.
Transfer Size (Bytes) Bandwidth(MB/s)
 33554432 2264.0

Quick Mode
Device to Device Bandwidth
.
Transfer Size (Bytes) Bandwidth(MB/s)
 33554432 104592.3

&&&& Test PASSED