#MIPS & other benchmarks
06-Dec-92 00:36:33
Sb: #30519-#MIPS & other benchmarks
Fm: Timothy Shaw 70046,10
To: Marlene Zenker/SYSOP 76701,250
You have brought up a good point Steve. "…but what platform isn't faster
if you keep throwing money and hardware at it?". I think the answer to
this question is the Amiga. The Windows environment on the PC supports
whatever high powered video card you throw at it providing it has a driver.
Since most of the new high powered video cards were designed with Windows
in mind, they all have Windows drivers. This translates to a transparent
increase in video performance with all my Windows based programs. I could
dump more money into an Amiga high powered video card, but it certainly
isn't worth it for the 3 applications that support the card. Most of my
software would not speed up due to my increased hardware. Matter of fact,
the Workbench would be just as slow (and if emulated by the high powered
video board slower) as it was before I bought the card. So to answer your
question Steve, the Amiga the platform with the highest rate of diminishing
returns when one throws money and hardware at it.
Tim