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Title: ARS Technica PPC970 In Depth Review
Post by: Billsey on May 17, 2003, 07:03:41 PM

ARS Technica Offers a technical, in depth review of the PPC 970.

This link (http://arstechnica.com/cpu/03q1/ppc970/ppc970-0.html) brings you to Part 2 of the review, which itself links to Part 1, as well as a previous preliminary review.

Title: Re: ARS Technica PPC970 In Depth Review
Post by: System on May 17, 2003, 07:08:22 PM

I posted this last week http://amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2429 (http://amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2429)
:-D

Title: Re: ARS Technica PPC970 In Depth Review
Post by: Billsey on May 17, 2003, 08:38:51 PM

Sorry. I must have missed it at the time. :-)

By the way, can you digest everything there into 1,000 words or less?

Title: Re: ARS Technica PPC970 In Depth Review
Post by: System on May 17, 2003, 08:41:43 PM

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By the way, can you digest everything there into 1,000 words or less?

You mean like a summary for the un-technical?

Title: Re: ARS Technica PPC970 In Depth Review
Post by: minator on May 17, 2003, 11:05:57 PM

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By the way, can you digest everything there into 1,000 words or less?

Sure:

It's gonna kick ass :-D

Title: Re: ARS Technica PPC970 In Depth Review
Post by: sTix on May 17, 2003, 11:49:28 PM

Integer performance: Good
Floating point performance: Excellent

Title: Re: ARS Technica PPC970 In Depth Review
Post by: SSSMoves on May 18, 2003, 01:09:47 AM

You did youre homework well didn't ye....

In my sight of view i wish they continue to
develop high multitasking performance. For
the 200 diffenrent instructions it can always
been higher.

It is a nice feeling my amiga runs dynamicly
and I have the same expectations from the PPC