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Offline fishy_fiz

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Re: 060 real time speed
« on: April 18, 2012, 01:08:51 PM »
68040 does 1.1 MIPS per clock, 68060 does 1.33.
A person also has to take into account that the '060 runs at a higher clock rate, plus its superscalar architecture. a 50mhz '060 is probably on average 1.5 times the speed of a 40mhz '040, but on occasion it's closr to 2x the speed. While higher clocked '060's are faster they dont scale well in some situations due to ram bandwidth being a bottleneck.
 
The difference is definately noticable, although dvd playback is still too much for an '060, especially when using aga.
Near as I can tell this is where I write something under the guise of being innocuous, but really its a pot shot at another persons/peoples choice of Amiga based systems. Unfortunately only I cant see how transparent and petty it makes me look.
 

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Re: 060 real time speed
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2012, 09:10:49 AM »
The FMV module contains an mpeg decoder chip, which is why it plays reasonable quality video.
As for playing videos on a classic amiga, I understand the appeal even if its not practical. It's quite fun, if tedious at times to convert videos to a format an upgraded amiga can cope ok with. DVD unfortunately just isnt one of those formats.
Near as I can tell this is where I write something under the guise of being innocuous, but really its a pot shot at another persons/peoples choice of Amiga based systems. Unfortunately only I cant see how transparent and petty it makes me look.