Speed rankings of Next Gen hardware

[Themamboman]

I'm interested to see how the different flavors of Amiga OS next generation hardware stack up against each other, speed wise.

I've gotten an idea of how this ranking is over on the Morphos side.

So, unless there are some real benchmarks, would someone like to take a stab at ranking the hardware speeds of the various PPC hardware that supports Amiga OS4.x?

BlizzardPPC
CyberstormPPC
AmigaOne XE G3
AmigaOne XE G4
Pegasos II G4 (was there a G3?)
Micro-A1c
Sam440ep
Sam440ep flex
Sam460
AmigaOne 500 (doesn't this one offer a 1.15 Ghz version of 460?)
AmigaOne X1000

I'm pretty sure the really old Phase5 cards are the slowest and the X1000 is the fastest, but I'm not sure about everything in between.

Thoughts?

[Themamboman]

I have only used Mac mini 1,42GHz and sam440ep-flex and I must say that the Mac mini preforms quite well on MorphOS and the SAM440ep-flex runs AOS 4x quite ok, I wish I had a faster AOS machine near the mac mini specs to compare. I like em both in different ways but the mac mini feels LOTS faster.

Have you tried the Hyperclock utility to overclock that sam44ep-flex?

[Themamboman]

When I originally asked this, I was specifically looking for systems that run Amiga OS4.x.  I knew that MorphOS on fast Apple hardware would be mentioned.  I've run Morphos and it's good.  Amiga OS4.1 is the only next gen I haven't run yet due to the hardware costs.

I'm probably going to break down and get the Sam440ep-flex due to the fact that it's the lowest priced one out there (apart from used hardware which isn't easy to come by and still commands high prices years after being discontinued).  It won't be a speedster but it will do for testing and some code porting.

[Themamboman]

once again to debate the speed of the cpu is kind of laughable when you have an OS that is optimized and super fast on even slow processors. WIthout any real software to use this horsepower whats the point? And again, without proper video drivers quite useless as many sam people have discovered.

So, as a potential SAM440ep-flex buyer, what should I look out for?  I'm already planning to get the RadeonHD driver, a mid-to-high end PCIe RadeonHD card (with pci-to-pcie adapter, of the kind recommended by the RadeonHD website).

[Themamboman]

As a SAM440ep-flex owner (800MHz version) I have bought the PCI to PCI-E adapter but haven't gotten hold of any drivers yet

Is this what you need?

http://hdrlab.org.nz/projects/amiga-os-4-projects/radeonhd-driver/

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1107

http://www.a-eon.com/?page=radeonhd