Speed of 060 Amiga w/ Voodoo?

[blakespot]

I have a Blizzard A1260 running a '060 @ 66MHz w/ 64MB RAM.  Also have the fast Blizzard SCSI daughterboard.  If I were to add a PCI busboard and throw in a Voodoo video board, how fast would a high res, high color desktop feel driven by this hardare (no PPC)?  Glass smooth window ops, etc?

Thanks.



blakespot

[billchase]

Maybe this site can help:

http://www.amigaspeed.de.vu/

C Snyder

[JaXanim]

I've asked the same question elsewhere. I have a PIV/Z4 bus system, the PIV running as Zorro2. I'm about to fit a Mediator/VooDoo5 and wondered if the graphics improvement would be worthwhile.

The answer was yes. It's a dream on wheels compared with Z2. However, it's not likely to be faster than a PIV/Zorro3 setup. But then 64Mb will always beat 4Mb, eh?

JaX

[Mikkihii]

After installation of mediator/voodoo to amiga, you don't want to go back using AGA-modes. :-D

[Damion]

It will be a nice boost from AGA, but then of course you'll
loose a lot of compatibility with the things that make an AGA
1200 such a fun machine...like easily watching demos.

Anyhow -- P96 Speed is (IMO) a good amiga graphics benchmark.
You can see the results of some Voodoo - equipped machines at
the above mentioned site, and, just for comparison, I include
here first the results of my old AGA/060 setup, and follow
it up with the same tests performed on a G3 Pegasos II.


.-----------------------------------------.
| Computer......: Amiga 1200/AGA          |
| CPU...........: 68060/66 MHz            |
| OS / WB.......: V20217.248/V45.3        |
| SetPatch......: V44.38                  |
| Chip/Fast.....: ~2.0MB/63.5MB           |
| Graphics card.: NO GRAPHICS CARD        |
| GFX system....: AmigaOS                 |
| Resolution....: 724 x 482 x 8           |
| Depth/Colors..: 256 colors              |
| Testlength....: 13                      |
+-----------------------------------------+
.============= SPEEDRESULTS ==============.
| RectFill()................     74 op/s  |
| RectFill() Pattern........     69 op/s  |
| WritePixel()..............  47574 op/s  |
| WriteChunkyPixels().......    195 op/s  |
| WritePixelArray8()........    188 op/s  |
| WritePixelLine8().........  12511 op/s  |
| DrawEllipse().............    313 op/s  |
| DrawCircle()..............    335 op/s  |
| Draw()....................    115 op/s  |
| Draw() Hor/Ver............    376 op/s  |
| ScrollRaster() X..........      5 op/s  |
| ScrollRaster() Y..........      6 op/s  |
| PutText().................   1643 op/s  |
| BlitBitMap()..............    185 op/s  |
| BlitBitMapRastPort()......    182 op/s  |
| BitMapScale().............     46 op/s  |
|--------------- Intuition ---------------|
| OpenWindow()..............     22 op/s  |
| MoveWindow()..............     26 op/s  |
| SizeWindow()..............     22 op/s  |
| CON-Output................     96 op/s  |
| ScreenToFront()...........     61 op/s  |
`========================================='




(edited header to provide correct system desc.)
.-----------------------------------------.
| Computer......: Pegasos II              |
| CPU...........: PPC750CXe/600 MHz       |
| OS / WB.......: V4113.35392/V50.1       |
| SetPatch......: N/A                     |
| Chip/Fast.....: ~2.0MB/223.5MB          |
| Graphics card.: Radeon 9000             |
| GFX system....: CyberGraphX 4           |
| Resolution....: 800 x 600 x 16          |
| Depth/Colors..: 65536 colors            |
| Testlength....: 10                      |
+-----------------------------------------+
.============= SPEEDRESULTS ==============.
| RectFill()................  41573 op/s  |
| RectFill() Pattern........   4120 op/s  |
| WritePixel().............. 482152 op/s  |
| WriteChunkyPixels().......   1455 op/s  |
| WritePixelArray8()........   1455 op/s  |
| WritePixelLine8().........  82163 op/s  |
| DrawEllipse().............  88733 op/s  |
| DrawCircle()..............  91335 op/s  |
| Draw().................... 104845 op/s  |
| Draw() Hor/Ver............ 183959 op/s  |
| ScrollRaster() X..........   2212 op/s  |
| ScrollRaster() Y..........   2152 op/s  |
| PutText().................  73133 op/s  |
| BlitBitMap()..............  41594 op/s  |
| BlitBitMapRastPort()......  34950 op/s  |
| BitMapScale().............    563 op/s  |
|--------------- Intuition ---------------|
| OpenWindow()..............    337 op/s  |
| MoveWindow()..............   5909 op/s  |
| SizeWindow()..............   5945 op/s  |
| CON-Output................   3743 op/s  |
| ScreenToFront()...........   7544 op/s  |
`========================================='