How fast is the 440EP comparitively?

[Hans_]

It's faster than both the 68060 and 603e by a long shot. It'll probably be similar to a G3 with the same clock-speed. The G5 and latest pentiums will leave it in the dust. My A1-G4 is faster in processing power terms, but the SAM440's memory bandwidth is higher, so in some tests (memory speed limited ones), the SAM will probably beat any Amigaone regardless of CPU speed.

I thought that ACube had done some benchmarks, or was that only memory speed tests?

Hans

[Hans_]

Seeing as they can't survive on sales to Amiga fans alone, the board is designed for use by industrial customers. They used an embedded PowerPC chip and the particular one chosen was probably the best chip for a reasonable price that they could get at the time. Amiga OS 4.x is compatible with PowerPC G3, G4 because thats what Amigaones have. However, those would require not just the G3/G4 chip, but a northbridge chip, southbridge chip, etc. Whereas embedded chips have all essential peripherals (minus graphics) onboard (e.g., USB, SATA, etc.).

Hans