AmigaONE benchmark - Important

[Kronos]

Well if your read the actual post you would see that the client
DOES have altivec-support, and such benches are really good for
altivec.

There is no way a G4/800 could beat a P4/2600 in integer or single
data float.

And the 3rd-level-cache on the G4 is only needed because it
doesn't have any other posibility to use modern DDR-RAM, which
comes naturally for todays x86s.

[Kronos]

@KennyR
No I am correct !!

The perfect CPU-RAM setup was what we had in an A2000 with Fast-RAM.

The CPU had access to the full 8mb every cycle.

Problem is that while CPUs got faster and faster the RAM wasn't keeping
up which made caches necessary. A cache is always a bottleneck,
and the more stages you got the worse it gets. Having a huge gap
between to stages is also a problem.

So starting with a slow main-RAM is not a good idea.

The use of a fast cache is much bigger in popular benchmarks
than it is in real-world SW, and that is why PPC is hanging behind
x86 when both run the same SW on the same OS.