MikeB on 19 September 2007
MikeB wrote:
At some point I upgraded a lowend 14 Mhz 2MB chipram (shared graphics/sound/CPU memory) Amiga with a 50 Mhz CPU upgrade board together with 4 MB 60 ns (best available at the time) 32-bit fastram, resulting in huge performance gains. But a year later I upgraded to a new 25 Mhz Amiga, so a lower clocked yet higher perfomance CPU.
The first step most tech noobs would understand, but with the latter upgrade many would be scratching their head.
The first step most tech noobs would understand, but with the latter upgrade many would be scratching their head.
To clarify for some the 68040 CPU delivered over double the per-clock performance as compared to the 68030 CPU.
Sadly I think the fact that many consumers look primarily at clock frequencies while deciding which CPU is faster, this has hurt 68k, PowerPC CPU and other CPU designs in the past when compared to more inefficient x86 alternatives. I think this also resulted in some poor performing yet highly clocked CPUs being released in the past.
