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Results from KickSpeed 1.2 by Nic Wilson
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68000, 1MB Chip, 0MB Fast: 5.53 seconds to read Kickstart 10 times
G-Force 040/33, 1MB Chip, 8MB Fast: 0.21 seconds to read Kickstart 10 times
The G-Force offers a 2,633% performance increase over a stock machine when
referencing the OS. This means that anything that calls the OS in any way is
sped up considerably!
Results from SysInfo 3.23 by Nic Wilson
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24.85 MIPs, 6.30 MFLOPs, 36.30 effective MHz.
Memory access time results from AIBB 6.1
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AIBB 6.1: CPU/Memory access latency index: 4.2
For comparison - G-Force 040-A4000: 5.0
Warp Engine 4040: 4.1
Stock A4000: 8.1
BusSpeedTest 0.07 (mlelstv) Buffer: 16384 Bytes
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-= 68000 =- -= 68040 =-
loop overhead: 58.8ns loop overhead: 4.1ns
register move: 590.4ns register move: 29.8ns
memtype op cycle bandwidth cycle bandwidth
fast readw 2007.8ns 1.0MByte/s 69.3ns 28.8MByte/s
fast readl 3014.4ns 1.3MByte/s 129.0ns 31.0MByte/s
fast readm 2387.6ns 1.7MByte/s 129.1ns 31.0MByte/s
fast writew 1876.7ns 1.1MByte/s 197.3ns 10.1MByte/s
fast writel 2767.9ns 1.4MByte/s 405.8ns 9.9MByte/s
fast writem 2011.4ns 2.0MByte/s 412.3ns 9.7MByte/s
chip readw 1176.1ns 1.7MByte/s 987.4ns 2.0MByte/s
chip readl 1765.9ns 2.3MByte/s 1566.8ns 2.6MByte/s
chip readm 1401.0ns 2.9MByte/s 1565.5ns 2.6MByte/s
chip writew 1176.9ns 1.7MByte/s 689.3ns 2.9MByte/s
chip writel 1765.0ns 2.3MByte/s 1282.9ns 3.1MByte/s
chip writem 1325.1ns 3.0MByte/s 1283.3ns 3.1MByte/s
rom readw 1176.0ns 1.7MByte/s 70.7ns 28.3MByte/s
rom readl 1766.0ns 2.3MByte/s 128.2ns 31.2MByte/s
rom readm 1395.8ns 2.9MByte/s 137.0ns 29.2MByte/s
RAM TEST (MOVING 10,000,000 BYTES)
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68000 68040
CHIP to CHIP
Time to move: 18533 ms Time to move: 7817 ms
Which is 539000 bytes/sec Which is 1279000 bytes/sec
Which is 1855 ns/byte Which is 781 ns/byte
Which is 7 color clock cycles/byte Which is 3 color clock cycles/byte
Which is 23 12Mhz 68020 cycles/byte Which is 10 12Mhz 68020 cycles/byte
Which is 45 25Mhz 68040 cycles/byte Which is 19 25Mhz 68040 cycles/byte
FAST to FAST
Time to move: 21567 ms Time to move: 1150 ms
Which is 463000 bytes/sec Which is 8695000 bytes/sec
Which is 2159 ns/byte Which is 115 ns/byte
Which is 8 color clock cycles/byte Which is 1 color clock cycles/byte
Which is 27 12Mhz 68020 cycles/byte Which is 2 12Mhz 68020 cycles/byte
Which is 52 25Mhz 68040 cycles/byte Which is 3 25Mhz 68040 cycles/byte
CHIP to FAST
Time to move: 19967 ms Time to move: 4583 ms
Which is 500000 bytes/sec Which is 2181000 bytes/sec
Which is 2000 ns/byte Which is 458 ns/byte
Which is 8 color clock cycles/byte Which is 2 color clock cycles/byte
Which is 25 12Mhz 68020 cycles/byte Which is 6 12Mhz 68020 cycles/byte
Which is 48 25Mhz 68040 cycles/byte Which is 11 25Mhz 68040 cycles/byte
FAST to CHIP
Time to move: 20450 ms Time to move: 4000 ms
Which is 488000 bytes/sec Which is 2500000 bytes/sec
Which is 2049 ns/byte Which is 400 ns/byte
Which is 8 color clock cycles/byte Which is 2 color clock cycles/byte
Which is 25 12Mhz 68020 cycles/byte Which is 5 12Mhz 68020 cycles/byte
Which is 49 25Mhz 68040 cycles/byte Which is 10 25Mhz 68040 cycles/byte
The G-Force gave my Picasso II quite a boost. This is a comparison
between a Picasso II in a 25MHz 68030 based system versus the G-Force 040.