Soldered memory is more reliable and it keeps the complexity on the mass produced fpga board.
Fair enough but I see from a previous link an identical board with 1GB as standard, why not use that? 256MB of RAM on my A1200 is the sweet spot for day to day use.
More memory and features does draw more power so it's important to consider if the 1st boards will work in a 500 without upgrading the power supply.
Cheap ATX adapter and PSU for $20-$50 solves that, my A500 and A1200 are both using an ATX PSU.
IDE takes high voltage by modern standards. SATA requires more expensive high speed transceivers although the cost of supporting it is falling. For now, the Amiga doesn't need much storage and an SD card is probably better than what most Amiga users use today for storage.
SD Card is too slow, plus I have 20-30GB of WHDLoad games a lone not including other games. My A1200 has a 250GB HDD running through a FastATA it's the only way to get browsing working well and I got tired of loading times.
There are no benchmarks to share as the Phoenix fpga CPU core has not booted an Amiga as far as I know.
They might want to remove that claim from their site then ;-)
It's entirely possible, if not likely, that this fpga CPU would eventually outperform the 68060 clock for clock. The Phoenix CPU has to boot AmigaOS first though.
Here's hoping, although quite happy with my 060@80MHz but a little more speed wouldn't hurt.
Adding chip memory inside the fpga is minor compared to implementing and debugging SAGA inside the fpga. The extra chip memory and AGA/SAGA gfx would only be available when using the DVI/HDMI output.
Not really fussed about SAGA but more chip RAM is the only bottle neck left on my A1200. Anyway this is for the A500, not sure I'd be purchasing one as I have an 030/indi in the 500plus. But would like a newer accelerator for the A1200 but if it's not going to be faster than the 060 then it's not worth it. Although 1GB+ RAM is far more interesting.
