Here you can find some Picasso96 speed tests.
A comparison of different Picasso96 releases and configurations
Test configuration:
- A3000 built into Mikroniks tower case,
- CyberStorm MkII 68060/50MHz,
- 32MB (on CyberStorm) + 4MB (on main board) fast RAM, 2 MB chip RAM,
- plain Kickstart and Workbench 3.1 (v40),
- PicassoIV v1.1 (pre-production sample with 25Mhz PCI-clock),
- PicassoII+,
- oMniBus (with Sierra S15025 32bit RAMDAC),
- ConneXion ethernet board,
- Picasso96,
- Rom2Fast 1.0 and 68060.library 40.353 (for CS MkII),
- WSpeed 37.37 (30.05.94).
WSpeed results
| Picasso96 version | 1.7 | 1.13 |
| Options | IgnoreMask | IgnoreMask |
| Screenmode: PicassoIV:640x480 , 256 Colors |
| Put Pixels | 1232496 | 1224072 |
| Draw Lines | 38848 | 38702 |
| Draw Hor/Ver | 128414 | 311427 |
| Draw Circles | 112827 | 112525 |
| Draw Ellipse | 86250 | 85883 |
| Draw Boxes | 21127 | 22624 |
| Scroll X | 3964 | 4125 |
| Scroll Y | 3847 | 4036 |
| Print Texts | 19756 | 29558 |
| CON: Output | 1948 | 2231 |
| Open Windows | 235 | 415 |
| Size Windows | 372 | 790 |
| Move Windows | 104 | 183 |
| Swap Screens | 599 | 609 |
| Areafill | 821 | 779 |
Screenmode: PicassoIV:640x480 HiColor, 256 Colors |
| Put Pixels | 1252284 | 1243635 |
| Draw Lines | 32807 | 32797 |
| Draw Hor/Ver | 124794 | 270627 |
| Draw Circles | 111628 | 111266 |
| Draw Ellipse | 83434 | 82913 |
| Draw Boxes | 9867 | 10245 |
| Scroll X | 1797 | 1827 |
| Scroll Y | 1685 | 1726 |
| Print Texts | 19478 | 29452 |
| CON: Output | 1206 | 1297 |
| Open Windows | 291 | 331 |
| Size Windows | 610 | 850 |
| Move Windows | 65 | 105 |
| Swap Screens | 599 | 609 |
| Areafill | 819 | 789 |
Screenmode: PicassoIV:640x480 TrueColor, 256 Colors |
| Put Pixels | 1154442 | 1145387 |
| Draw Lines | 13426 | 13435 |
| Draw Hor/Ver | 118290 | 226324 |
| Draw Circles | 41607 | 41467 |
| Draw Ellipse | 35128 | 35059 |
| Draw Boxes | 5830 | 5920 |
| Scroll X | 1049 | 1062 |
| Scroll Y | 958 | 972 |
| Print Texts | 16037 | 22790 |
| CON: Output | 793 | 833 |
| Open Windows | 238 | 259 |
| Size Windows | 566 | 762 |
| Move Windows | 35 | 72 |
| Swap Screens | 599 | 609 |
| Areafill | 816 | 784 |
Due to the fact that WSpeed runs within the multi-tasking, the results may
vary about 5%.
This page is currently under development.
tabt, March, 10th 1997