A 66mhz '060 is roughly 85-90mips. A 50mhz '030 is about 12. Are these the sorts of figures you was after ? An '060 really is something like the 500% faster figure that was quoted, even more in some cases. Sure AGA can become a bottleneck with heavily graphics intensive stuff, but that's a pretty small portion of the overall picture. How is this hard to believe? There's something like a decade between the cpus. Yes, by modern standards its a slow cpu, but it's the best experience avialable to a classic amiga, so good luck to anyone who trying to get ahold of one.
Even your 4140mips g4 is about 30x slower than current high end cpus (core i7-980x is rated as over 150,000 mips), but as you seem to understand when it's your hobby, raw speed isnt everything. It's about getting the best possible experience for your hobby.
That's what I was kind of information I was hoping someone would quote me. This is why the difference between real performance gains and figures based solely on CPU performance data are so varied.
OK, now when say you run a video game, what's the increase in FPS when moving from an '030 to an '60? It's certainly not on the order of 5 times, is it?
And my G4 based Powermac, its not really 42 times more powerful than your '60 is it? Not really anymore than an i7 is 30 times more powerful than my G4.
We're completely outside any reasonable comparisons at this point.
The best way to look at this is the same as its always been, via application benchmarks.
So we all are clear on this, a 5 times higher CPU mips rating does not make a system five time "faster". Its a measurement of the CPU alone. And the Amiga relies on a lot of custom chips that gain little from a faster CPU.
The irritating thing is, Chaos knows this. That's why so much of the Natami's design features updated components. Even if you could recreate the original Amiga chipset, would you want to?
