> Well it's GEMBENCH..... I know that it's not the best to use but it's strange
> that it should be so expeptinal wrong as it sounds.
No, that's not strange at all. GEMBench is an incredibly stupid benchmark.
It's been a long time since I looked at the memory tests, but I seem to
recall them being made in a way that was very cache unfriendly on an '030,
but rather nice to the '040 caches.
I don't know how the '060 caches are organized.
> the roof.... they were at 2400%. Sounds more correct. Maybe the AB040 fools
It does?
A normal Falcon has something like 6Mbyte/s bandwidth to RAM. 24 times
that would be 144 Mbyte/s, which given a 32 bit bus would require all
accesses to take less than a single clock cycle at 32MHz.
Let's say that it was really 128Mbyte/s to keep within the physical limits.
That still requires an instant setup of each burst transfer, which just
isn't possible. I'd be very surprised if even 2-1-1-1 was possible.
An AB040 can reach slightly more than 30MByte/s and I'd say that the
Hades can at best manage a little more than double that. I'd be surprised
if it did, though.
> But also, Petr did say that Quake on the Hades were slower than on the AB040 so
> something fishy is going on in the Hades.
An '060 should be _very_ good at Quake.
I don't think the difference between a Hades040 and an AB040 should be
significant, though.
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