Message #1280 - LOCAL - Amiga Chat Date: 19-03-93 23:01 From: Alex Shaw To: All Subject: A1200 users: dont't buy PCMCIA ram!! Replies: -> #1648 Hi all, Here's some info which A1200 owners considering buying some extra memory (like myself) will find useful... *****> Here are the results of AIBB 5.0 on an A1200 with a PCMCIA 16 bit ram card, and with a Microbotics MBX1200Z. Reference is a A1200 with only chip ram. AIBB V.5.0 Benchmark comparison of the Amiga 1200 in three configurations: Test Type ChipRAM PCMCIA MBX 1200z ----------------------------------------------------------------- WritePixel 1.00 0.63 2.15 Sieve 1.00 0.98 1.21 Dhrystone 1.00 0.73 1.85 Sort 1.00 1.08 1.44 Matrix 1.00 0.80 1.60 TMath 1.00 0.79 1.24 Memtest 1.00 1.00 1.31 TGTest 1.00 0.79 1.71 AVERAGE 1.00 0.85 1.50 Savage 1.00 0.62 55.24 FMath 1.00 0.58 6.02 FMatrix 1.00 0.64 1.61 BeachBall 1.00 0.64 10.36 SWhetstone 1.00 0.61 16.48 DWhetstone 1.00 0.61 17.49 FTrace 1.00 0.62 28.37 CPLXtest 1.00 0.63 2.15 AVERAGE FP 1.00 0.62 17.22 OVERALL AVERAGE 1.00 0.73 9.36 Bottom half of table shows floating-point-intensive benchmarks. As you can see, PCMCIA ram most often slows down the machine!! Of course, floating point results must take care that the test was done with a 68881 FPU on the 1200!! Thierry BLANCHOT, A1200 HD 80MB *****> Thanks Thierry.. l8r alex Read Reply -> (+), (A)gain, (N)ext, (L)ast, (R)eply, (E)nter, (S)top: