Path: news.weeg.uiowa.edu!news.uiowa.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!usc!news.service.uci.edu!nntpsrv From: pho@vmsa.oac.uci.edu Subject: 16 MHz 64k Zip Benchmarks Nntp-Posting-Host: vmsa.oac.uci.edu Message-ID: <2C5EE308.28070@news.service.uci.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Organization: University of California, Irvine Lines: 117 Date: 3 Aug 93 22:13:28 GMT This is being posted for Long... Here are some info Frank Lin and some other people requested. I finally got a new battery for my watch so I can do some benchmarks. Here are a few to begin with. Let me know if think up of some other good benchmarks. BTW, I'd like to get a copy of your ORCA/C v2.0.1 compiled Dhrystone. Better yet, let's put together a standard benchmark package with the programs (excluding copyrighted stuff) and data files. About the 7400, you need to replace the 74F00 with 74HC00. What I did was cut out the 74F00 and installed a socket for the 74HC00. That's one of the few things that has to be done to run the Zip up to about 14 MHz. 16 MHz requires a little bit more work. Pretty soon, I'll be providing 14 - 16 MHz Zips for about $350. I think it's a better alternative than spending $300 on parts (base Zip, Sanyo 65c816, srams, crystal oscillator, misc. parts) and taking a gamble to see if you can get it to work properly. No worries about frying chips, pulling or breaking traces and a lot better than the $569 price Zip Inc. was charging (though they deserve it) for the 14 MHz when it was available. I won't be profiting from this but just want everyone to have fun running their IIgs at WARPPP speed and to prove to a certain person (hi Gary!) that he was wrong when he handed me a 64 MHz crystal oscillator and told me I wouldn't be able to use it and to put in a plug for Zip Inc. for providing one of the best products ever for the IIgs. System & Conditions =================== ROM 03 IIgs 16 MHz 64k Zip GSX v1.02 AE 6 MB GSRam+ Rev. D RamFast Rev. D ROM 2.01e Sony SMO-E501 594 MB magneto optical drive (referred to as MO) AE Sonic Blaster Stock power supply from ROM 01 IIgs System shift-booted before running benchmarks. Stopwatch stops when the cursor returns to the screen and no sooner. All compile times are for first time and not subsequent compiles (no use of ORCA/C precompiled headers). 2.8 MHz time shown first followed by time for 16 MHz (ie. XXX / XXX secs). The figure in parenthesis (XXX %) is the improvement over stock 2.8 MHz. Benchmark 5 =========== 16.00Mhz Result of the 1 runs Averaged (base speed = 100%) : Accelerated time Actual Mhz 10 iterations of the Sieve of Erastothenes. 98.00 10.64 500 strings selection sort. 259.00 11.29 100 iterations of floating point test. 123.00 10.45 15000 Gamm units (FPE instruction mix) in 395.00 10.41 10 iterations of Fibinacci calls in 507.00 10.05 5000 itereation Integer math in 420.00 9.39 Average 10.37 Dhrystone v1.1 (compiled with ORCA/C v2.0.0) ============== 305 / 1282 dhrystones per sec (420%) AppleWorks GS v1.1 ================== Change font from Geneva to Times: 133 / 20 secs (665%) Change font size from 12 pt to 24 pt: 106 / 19 secs (558%) Scroll through 87 pg. document (12 point Geneva font): 587 / 163 (360%) * Document GenieLamp July '93 Fillmaze v1.0 ============= 57 / 74 frames per second (130%) * Calculated 74 fps but only 60 fps displayable at 60 Hz AppleSoft BASIC =============== 1 FOR X = 1 TO 1000000 : NEXT Execute above program: 405 / 99 secs (409%) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The last four benchmarks involve a lot of disk I/O and suffer from the system having to frequently slow down to 1 MHz. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- METAL 1.09.01 & FutureVision 4.02 ================================= Compile all segments from MO to /RAM5: 257 / 122 secs (211%) GSHK v1.1 ========= Compress System 6.0.1 /SYSTEM disk from 3.5" to /RAM5: 171 / 75 secs (228%) Uncompress System 6.0.1 archive from /RAM5 to 3.5": 148 / 83 secs (178%) ORCA/C 2.0.0 ============ Compile REVERSI.CC from /RAM5 to /RAM5: 187 / 54 secs (346%) Micol Advanced BASIC GS v4.2 ============================ Compile MICOL.UTIL from /RAM5 to /RAM5: 148 / 30 secs (493%)