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Re: PPC/68060 Faster or not?
« on: August 03, 2003, 11:15:19 AM »
ok, a small example of how it was for me... and many others.


blizzard ppc 040 25/240 mzh  , this was the system first tested , went ok... not fast and not slow when you ran games as quake (GL) ,wipeout2097 etc...

but when it came to games as heretic 2 , shogo and freespace etc , they run like....SLOW! on this card.


so we inserted a 060/66/240 mzh card, also in the same machine,same ram etc.. the os seems much faster (ofcourse its 060 ... :)) , but games like heretic 2,shogo,freespace etc... and wipeout etc...all seems so much faster, and they are much faster.

sadly this is not as good as a 604 with a 060 (on csppc) but its the best thing u can get on a1200 (bppc with 060) , the reason for all this is the amount of context switching needed in one app/gamedemo etc , this is more or less the ppc handing over instructions for the 68k cpu to handle and then the 68k cpu gives it back <-> ,
i could have been more precise when i explained this but my guess u wouldnt read it anyway.

anyway..as a last note... 060 on a blizzppc/csppc works like a dream compared to 040...

cheers
Whats up with all the hate!