These are the AIBB6.5 modules of Apollo 1260
and Blizzard 1260. 

Please note that the tests was run on the very
same machine with the same configuration:

Amiga 1200
68060 card (Apollo and Blizzard)
120 MB 3,5" Quantum LPS IDE drive
4 MB 60 ns SIMM (same SIMM used)
Kickstart 3.0
Workbench 3.1
Both cards with the supplied 060 software installed

I did not try to "tune" the system in any way. I
just installed the cards and the software as described
in the manuals. Maybe it might be possible to do changes
in the startup and config of the machine, but anyway,
it was only my intention to test the relative speed
between these two excellent cards. I looked throug an 
AIBB module for Apollo 3060/4060 which has been made on
the A4000T and to my big surprise, many test, especially
graphics and FPU tests were _a_lot_ faster. Well, I
don't have time to check what causes this... just 
for the curiosity, I have included the 3060/4060 module
too.

AIBB had to be run with the following options:
aibb6.5 -c0 -m0 -f2 -cs50 -fs50
to be compatible with 060.

On the overall ratings I got the following:

                  Integer    Graphics   FPU
Apollo 1260        15.71      3.62     46.20
Blizzard 1260      13.70      3.53     45.90
Apollo faster by    15%       2,5%      0,7%

The largest difference was on the MemTest test, where
Apollo was ~26 % faster than Blizzard.

Apollo was fastest on 17-18 of the 20 tests. However, most
tests gave approx. the same result. It seems like Apollo
has faster memory access which makes it faster on memory
intensive tests.

With SCSISpeed, Apollo got the best transfers from
the IDE drive: Up to 1,95 MB/sek, as opposed to 1,8 MB/
sec with Blizzard.

With Busspeed by Michael Van Elst (sp? - sorry if wrong),
the maximum for Apollo was 57 MB/sec as opposed to
50 MB/sec with Blizzard.

- Tor Rune Skoglund
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