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Hedeon 08 August 2018 18:16
Always wanted a cheap PPC card?
 
The latest sonnet library (17.10) now also supports the Killer NIC M1 card.

Some benchmarks of the Killer NIC M1 running WarpOS stuff:

GPMark:

Code:
                      CSPPC  BPPC    Sonnet  PrPMC800 Killer NIC
                      360MHz 330MHz  500MHz  450MHz  400MHz
                      CVPPC  Voodoo3 Voodoo3 Voodoo3  Voodoo3

Blitting Test:        18.7    8.2    36.8    137.7    40.0
Plasma:              18.5    8.2    32.8    81.5    34.3
Rotozoomer:          17.3    6.3    33.1    96.7    34.3
Rotozoomer Near:      18.6    8.2    33.6    100.9    36.1
Rotozoomer Far:      14.8    4.2    31.7    86.0    30.2
Radial Blur:          6.9    1.6    9.9    19.4    12.0
3D Bunny:            3.6    1.6    5.1    11.2    7.0
Games:

Code:
          Demo  Sonnet 500MHz G3    PrPMC 450MHz G4  Killer NIC 400MHz
                320x240  640x480  320x240  640x480  320x240  640x480
QuakeWOS  (2)    68.3    24.6      93.0    40.3      60.0    25.3
glQuake  (1)    x      48.9        x      50.1      x      44.5
Quake II  (1)    x      51.2        x      55.1      x      44.3
Quake III (4)    x      28.3        x      32.0      x      a
x = not measured
a = not enough memory

nexus 08 August 2018 19:20
they have no excuse now :) just need that mediator

Hedeon 13 August 2018 10:34
http://amigafun.blogspot.com/2018/08...work-card.html

For a short demo.

kriz 13 August 2018 21:45
Wow that is really cool !! But any link for that Nic card ?

nexus 13 August 2018 22:15
Quote:
Originally Posted by kriz (Post 1260864)
Wow that is really cool !! But any link for that Nic card ?
ebay all day look back at 1 of my posts shows the names and part#'s
http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=...postcount=2396
the pci-e cards have not been tested with the adapter shown in post

b0lt-thrower 14 August 2018 03:18
Yeah Sonnet PCI cards are several hundred dollars on eBay, I think you can drop the "cheap" out of your title :D

Marlon_ 14 August 2018 03:29
Quote:
Originally Posted by b0lt-thrower (Post 1260942)
Yeah Sonnet PCI cards are several hundred dollars on eBay, I think you can drop the "cheap" out of your title :D
The Killer cards which this thread refers to goes for around £50~, and you would've known that if you actually read the thread instead of assuming...

nexus 14 August 2018 04:11
Quote:
Originally Posted by b0lt-thrower (Post 1260942)
Yeah Sonnet PCI cards are several hundred dollars on eBay, I think you can drop the "cheap" out of your title :D
maybe you should check out the thread as we support many types of cards
the card above is a DELL OEM part and sold for pocket change

grelbfarlk 14 August 2018 04:28
I believe that I would like to imagine that this will boot BeOS, if I get two does it work with multiprocessor support in BeOS? Because if it doesn't, no deal.

spudje 14 August 2018 08:27
Now then it becomes interesting again, when also BeOS will run!

trixster 14 August 2018 08:57
Great work guys! Ppc cards for the masses! :)

b0lt-thrower 14 August 2018 22:58
Well I'll be damned! That IS cool! Does it have it's own RAM? If not what's the speed like? Can it still use the USB and network function?

Hedeon 14 August 2018 23:10
Quote:
Originally Posted by b0lt-thrower (Post 1261192)
Well I'll be damned! That IS cool! Does it have it's own RAM? If not what's the speed like? Can it still use the USB and network function?
It has 64MB RAM which is not enough for the really big stuff like Q3, but it is budget after all.

If someone writes Amiga drivers for the USB and Network part, why not.

Hiddenevil 15 August 2018 09:01
Is there a link with a list of the compatible cards? Just I'm not sure what card I should be looking for.

nexus 15 August 2018 11:13
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hiddenevil (Post 1261250)
Is there a link with a list of the compatible cards? Just I'm not sure what card I should be looking for.
if you want the card in this thread then look for K1/M1 Killer NIC network gaming PCI 32bit
https://www.ebay.com/itm/GENUINE-DEL...sid=m570.l1313

Hiddenevil 15 August 2018 13:21
Do these cards give any benefit to general performance in wb 3.9?

I've never had a PPC card, so I don't know the pros and cons.

kolla 15 August 2018 14:21
You can offload decoding of datatypes to the PPC, and a few other things here and there, but most of the benefit comes when you use programs dedicatedly written for WarpOS. For example video playback etc.

Crom 15 August 2018 14:41
so its confirmed that the k1 cards do in fact work?

trixster 15 August 2018 15:33
I would recommend reading the sonnet thread to get a good understanding of quite what works and what doesn’t, and to what extent. Plus a read of the wiki would be worthwhile

https://github.com/Sakura-IT/SonnetAmiga/wiki

spudje 15 August 2018 15:50
Although I long ago gave up the Sonnet route I'm still following just of of interest. Some naive and probably stupid idea, but since for these PCI-E cards we need a (PCI) adapter anyway, would it make sense to work on an Amiga CPU slot to PCI-E adapter instead of putting it in a PCI slot?

Mmm, would that even work without a 68k CPU, which you would then need on the mainboard.


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