RockBEAT + OS4 HW benchmarks (just for fun)

The question of "how much faster is the Sam 800mhz over the 667mhz" (etc) has made me think it'd be a cool/fun idea to post our Sam, and maybe Peg2/A1 benchmarks. In particular, RockBEAT benchmarks. When you save a song as a WAV, it mixes the instruments and bars, etc, then tells you how much time it took to make it happen.

The saving itself is not optimised yet, as I was concentrating on making it sound and save correct during development..

Lets all follow these steps, and post our benchmarks here:

1. Download the latest RockBEAT:
http://www.os4depot.net/?function=sho ... udio/tracker/rockbeat.lha

2. Download this example project file:
http://wookiechat.amigarevolution.com/rockbeat/testsong.rb

3. Open the project in RockBEAT, and once it has loaded, select from the Save pulldown menu.. "Save entire song as one file". Save it anywhere, enter a name such as "test.wav".

4. Paste your final Time Elapsed text in this thread with your CPU information.


I'll start the thread off with my own results:

Sam440ep 667mhz + 512mb RAM
Time taken: 00:03:32
(I'm running a debug kernel.. wonder if it slows things down at all?)

@jahc

On my A1 xe 1ghz the time taken was 00:01:52.

I used ram to perform the function.

@jahc

Sam440ep 667 MHz, 512 MB RAM, OS4.1 (QuickFix)
00:03:40

Saved the song to RAM.

@gurus2000

We have the same hardware, and mine was faster. I suspect it was because I saved mine to hard drive. They say that the RAM disk is marginally slower.
Edit: Oh.. apparently not. I dont want to spread mis-information.

@jahc
Looks in my signature for the AmigaOne config.
Time taken: 00:02:00 to ram:
Time taken: 00:02:08 to HD

@jahc

A1G3SE 600mhz + 256mb RAM
Time taken: 00:02:48 saved to RAM:
Time taken: 00:03:02 saved to HD:

@jahc

Time taken: 00:02:12

on A1G4@800+AOS4.1 (save to RAM)

@jahc
SAM Flex 800MHZ + 1GB memory.
Time taken: 00:02:55 saved to RAM:

Same system with WBStartup programs disabled.
Time taken: 00:02:51 saved to RAM:

@jahc

Sam440ep 666MHz+512Mb, Quickfix-updated OS4.1, HD, 00:03:42
" " " , Ram:, 00:03:43

AmigaOne 800MHz+512Mb, Quickfix-updated OS4.1, HD, 00:02:48
" " " , Ram:, 00:02:46

@jach

2:51 with a PEG2 G3@600mhz (os4.1) ...

@all

See post #16.

@jahc

Sam440ep 667mhz + 512mb RAM * quickfix update.
Time taken: 00:03:28

Had Wookiechat and Limpid Clock running at the same time.
Saved to hd.

@All:
Sam440Flex 800Mhz 1Gb RAM with Amiga OS 4.1 + QuickFIX : 00:02:53

When my AmiDARK Engine will be a bit more advanced, I'll prepare a small 3D benchmark for our Amigas :p

@Dirk-B

very nice table!

and this should give us a rough idea of speed now.

@jahc

My Sam440ep 533mhz did it in 00:04:08

512mb version and more importend 133mhz FSB.

RWO

@all

I have added fsb for the new Sam's:

@Jahc

Quote:

Disabled Wookiechat and Limpid Clock.
Using a partiton with JXFS in both instances.

New time 00:3:26

@jahc

here on A1SE@666
the processing time was 2:28


EDIT: fsb133 5x, 512MB, to RAM:

Looks like G3 is faster than G4 with same clock speed (and same hardware).

@Dirk-B
Could you add it to your table if testers saved the project to RAM or HD. Also if everybody could tell what kind of hard drive controllers and hard drives you were using if you saved it to the HD.

@TSK

I just did another testrun with "boot with no startup-sequence".

PEG2 G3 600 mhz 256 ram

HD: 2:47
RAM: 2:46