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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Anding on August 31, 2006, 03:45:32 PM

Title: Benchmarks
Post by: Anding on August 31, 2006, 03:45:32 PM

Hi,

Is there any widly recognized benchmarking software that I can use to test the speed of my Amiga?  I am interested in figuing out how my WinUAE Amiga compares to an accelerated A1200, and hence give me some perspective on whether those expensive accelerator cards on eBay would do much beyond the results of pure emulation I already get.  I suspect not, but I wanted to quantify it!

Regards

Title: Re: Benchmarks
Post by: balrogsoft on August 31, 2006, 03:51:29 PM

Try AIBB, you can download from Aminet, and a lot of modules of different configurations.

AIBB:
http://www.aminet.net/package.php?package=util/moni/AIBB_65.lha

AIBB Modules:
http://www.aminet.net/search.php?query=aibb

Title: Re: Benchmarks
Post by: Ilwrath on August 31, 2006, 04:09:14 PM

True... but keep in mind, benchmarking an emulator is often misleading.  Many emulators can JIT the benchmark test to a point that the results are HIGHLY misleading.  Really, benchmarks are only good for comparing same-family hardware with different configurations.

Title: Re: Benchmarks
Post by: AmigaMance on August 31, 2006, 04:39:47 PM

 There is also SysSpeed from Aminet. It is as good or even better than AIBB.

Title: Re: Benchmarks
Post by: Damion on August 31, 2006, 06:00:46 PM

AmigaMark is pretty decent, and it isn't totally ancient, either. ;)

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I am interested in figuing out how my WinUAE Amiga compares to an accelerated A1200, and hence give me some perspective on whether those expensive accelerator cards on eBay would do much beyond the results of pure emulation I already get.

If your PC is even somewhat modern, WinUAE will be several times faster (at least) than any '060 Amiga.

Title: Re: Benchmarks
Post by: alexatkin on September 02, 2006, 12:08:15 PM

Once you add JIT and Picasso support then WinUAE is going to wipe the floor with a real Amiga unless you have a LOT of upgrades.  I suspect on a high-end PC it will rival or beat PPC accelerators too.

Also, you can use much more modern graphics cards on PCs and WinUAE automatically supports them and passes this benefit onto the Amiga, for 2D stuff anyway.

Personally, getting the accelerator for the A1200 was not about making the Amiga fast.  It was about making it fast enough and with enough RAM to easily install software on it and pull ADF files over the network.  Trying to get an A1200 to be fast seems kinda silly considering how powerful PCs are now.  You can buy a decent PC for how much it would cost for even an 060 card.  If you go PowerPC you could build a PC many times more powerful for the same price or cheaper. You would have to REALLY be obsessed to choose the Amiga.

While I love the Amiga dearly I have moved on and can live with XP or Linux for anything serious.  Theres not a single thing I can think of where the Amiga would be better than PC, other than playing old Amiga games.

Of course this might change if OS4 ever happens and hardware to support it.  But upgrading classic Amigas is not the future, building PCs that run OS4 is. (and when I say PCs I mean whatever hardware you need not necessarily IBM compatible)

Title: Re: Benchmarks
Post by: Seiya on September 02, 2006, 12:29:15 PM

you can find on Aminet (i think) AmigaMARK

Title: Re: Benchmarks
Post by: keropi on September 02, 2006, 12:54:44 PM

you only need SysSpeed 2/6 ...
http://main.aminet.net/util/moni/sspeed26.lha