08 August 2018, 18:16 | #1 |
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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 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 a = not enough memory |
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they have no excuse now just need that mediator
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13 August 2018, 21:45 | #4 |
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Wow that is really cool !! But any link for that Nic card ?
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13 August 2018, 22:15 | #5 |
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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 |
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Yeah Sonnet PCI cards are several hundred dollars on eBay, I think you can drop the "cheap" out of your title
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14 August 2018, 03:29 | #7 |
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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...
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14 August 2018, 04:28 | #9 |
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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.
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Now then it becomes interesting again, when also BeOS will run!
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14 August 2018, 08:57 | #11 |
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Great work guys! Ppc cards for the masses!
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14 August 2018, 22:58 | #12 |
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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?
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Quote:
If someone writes Amiga drivers for the USB and Network part, why not. |
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Is there a link with a list of the compatible cards? Just I'm not sure what card I should be looking for.
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/GENUINE-DEL...sid=m570.l1313 |
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15 August 2018, 13:21 | #16 |
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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. |
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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.
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so its confirmed that the k1 cards do in fact work?
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15 August 2018, 15:33 | #19 |
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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 |
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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. Last edited by spudje; 15 August 2018 at 17:39. |
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