Well I'm confused.. That score shouldnt be possible without fastram..
FrontBench: using Frontier as a benchmark (Discussion thread)
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Re: FrontBench: using Frontier as a benchmark (Discussion thread)
Thanks, Darklord. The Pak figures are great both here and Frank’s over on Atari-forum. Not sure how it’s doing that!Darklord wrote: ↑Wed Feb 16, 2022 12:10 am I finally got around to setting this up here and ran it on 2 machines:
Atari Mega STe (stock) - 1227 frames
Atari STacy (Pak 68/3 030 @ 40mhz, no FASTRAM) - 3163 frames
BTW, watching the difference in Frontier between the Mega STe
and the Pak 68/3 equipped STacy is like night and day...
You do need to let me know your screen refresh rate, though. 50 or 60Hz?
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Re: FrontBench: using Frontier as a benchmark (Discussion thread)
I think we decided it's the Pak 68/3 board's level 1 and 2 caches making
the difference?
Love to have my STacy pumped up to 50mhz and FASTRAM!
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Re: FrontBench: using Frontier as a benchmark (Discussion thread)
Oh, sorry - should be 60Hz, in the US....
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Re: FrontBench: using Frontier as a benchmark (Discussion thread)
Didn't even know the pak030 had L2 cache ?!
Do you have a image of it ?
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Re: FrontBench: using Frontier as a benchmark (Discussion thread)
I don't. This is what Frank Lucas said over in the FrontBench message thread at Atari Forum:
"The PAK68/3 have L1 Cache into the CPU and 32kB L2 Cache to speed up the transfer with the ST Ram ..."
HTH's...
Oh...it is listed on the Pak 68/3's jumpers - J4 SLC secondary level cache:
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Re: FrontBench: using Frontier as a benchmark (Discussion thread)
At least the PAK68/030 has 4 cache RAM chips under the ROM chips and 2 TAG ram chips. The PAK68/020 looks to be the same board but I don't know much about it.
Re: FrontBench: using Frontier as a benchmark (Discussion thread)
I have a pak 20 but it doesn't like me be glad when we get the new MMU running with faster RAM. I had the MMU running along with @Icky a while back. But the GLUE was being sulky even so , ditch the DRAM and get some SRAM on there.. No need for caches then They kinda obsolete now. The SEC booster can run at 64MHz. We just need to fix the RAM bottleneck and it will leave everything else in the dust
It reminds me, I need to design a SRAM board for the H5
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Re: FrontBench: using Frontier as a benchmark (Discussion thread)
If I can find a suitable test machine, I'll see if I can test with my PAK 68/20.
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Re: FrontBench: using Frontier as a benchmark (Discussion thread)
Good idearubber_jonnie wrote: ↑Wed Feb 16, 2022 10:38 am If I can find a suitable test machine, I'll see if I can test with my PAK 68/20.
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