#: 17278 S1/General Interest
    21-Dec-92  23:31:09
Sb: Benchmarks
Fm: Frank Hogg of FHL 70310,317
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 The following benchmark, written in Basic on OS9/68000
 was done to show the 'relative' performance between
 different computers from FHL/Hazelwood. As benchmarks go
 it is very simple. I think you will find the results
 interesting.

 SHELL "date -j"
 FOR j=1 to 12
   FOR i=1 to 1000
     a=SQRT(i)
     b=INT(a)
     IF a=b THEN a=b
     ENDIF
   NEXT i
 NEXT j
 SHELL :date -j"


 Year  Model    Speed   CPU   FPU   Seconds

 '92   KiX\30  33 Mhz  68030  Yes      2
 '92   KiX\30  25 Mhz  68030  Yes      3
 '92   KiX\30  16 Mhz  68030  Yes      5
 '87   QT20x   12 Mhz  68020  Yes     12
 '92   KiX\30  33 Mhz  68030   No     14
 '92   KiX\30  25 Mhz  68030   No     19
 '92   KiX\30  16 Mhz  68030   No     29
 '90   TC70*   15 Mhz  68070   No    105
 '85   QT+     10 Mhz  68000   No    105
 '84   QT       8 Mhz  68008   No    219

 * On board memory only.

 The fastest KiX\30 turned out to be 52.5 times faster
 than the TC70. All of the KiX\30 tests were done on a
 KiX\30 with a 25Mhz CPU. The crystal was changed to get
 the different speeds. We will be testing 40Mhz and 50Mhz
 on the KiX\30 soon. I will report those results later.

 Frank Hogg -- FHL

 PS Please send comments via email as I don't check into
 this forum very often.

 PPS 'FPU' is the 68881/2 math co-processor for those who
 aren't familiar with the terminology.