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Originally Posted by Samurai_Crow
I have a micro a1 and seldom use it. I use FS-UAE more than any Amiga. If software is written for 68k I am more likely to use it. Why? PPC code is 30% bigger and slower per byte and per clock cycle. A 68k clocked at 600 MHz will wipe the floor with the 800 MHz A1. FPGA wins. An improved AGA core in an FPGA will do better yet.
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But where will we get a 600MHz 68k? The most reasonable way would be buying Stratix 10 chips (claimed to have 1GHz fabric) and hoping one can get a 600MHz processor on that.
But what is the cost of a Stratix 10 FPGA? Probably $7000+ for small quantities.
Or one could take an expensive high-performance Intel chip like a i7 6700K 4GHz (4.2 "turbo", overclockable) ~$400+motherboard+graphics etc.
Assuming one can emulate a 68k at 1/4 the native performance one will get a virtual 1GHz 68k processor...