apollo vs blizzard vs gvp

[AmigaMance]

@All

I switched from an Apollo 1240 to a BPPC (040 at 25Mhz) and I must say that it "feels" a lot slower.
The main advantage is the PPC of course (although I use it less than I thought) and that I am no longer limited to just 32MB of RAM.
Using the Apollo however, FastMem access (tested using Sysspeed) was around 50% faster and transfer rates of my Idefix Express were about 2MB/s higher than with the BPPC.

That sounds weird, but I have to admit I only have experience of BPPC 060.

The Blizzard 1230 MK-III I had before was fast in IDE transfer at least.

When I had my A1200 with BPPC (040) Idefix Express never gave any advantage. Transfer rates were the same no matter were I using Express adapter or not.

IDE transfer rates were probably even slower than with Blizzard-VI 030/50MHz.

 Hmmm... All of the above posts are suggesting that the slow memory/hd access concerns the BPPC specifically and not all of the Blizzard cards.
 Also, look what i found in the readme of the idefix turbo patch:

This is a small patch for the great IDEfix97 software by Oliver Kastl
It patches some routines in the IDEfix executable to make it a bit faster.
Usually you should get a 100-300KB speedup on IDE HD drives.
This is very good since PPC Blizzard cards are realy slow with IDE HD's

 So, what do you think?

[AmigaMance]

@srg86

 Ah.. now i can explain some things. Like why the 68040/25 of my BPPC doesn't feel much faster than my Blizzard 1230IV and why various benchmark utilities like SysInfo report slower memory access on the BPPC.
 I wonder if this deficiency has to do with the dual CPU design of the card.

[AmigaMance]

The FPU will get used by games like Gloom, Alien Breed 3D, AB3D2: The Killing Grounds, Breathless, Doom, XTreme Racing, TFX and more.

 These games are using the FPU? (except of TFX maybe)