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Performance Tuning On Apollo-Core

Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
16 Nov 2020 19:37


As planned for the december release R5, the Apollo Team is currently testing some performance improvements on 68080.
 
Here the score of normal speed x12 release core: (not overclocked!)
 




Roger Andre Lassen

Posts 150
16 Nov 2020 20:37


Awesome :-) Good job, sir !



Nikos Pagonis

Posts 109
17 Nov 2020 13:55


YES SIR!!!! At your service....


Mateusz S.

Posts 53
17 Nov 2020 23:34


Is it for V4 or all Vampire cards?


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
18 Nov 2020 01:00


Mateusz S. wrote:

Is it for V4 or all Vampire cards?

Our goal is of course to improve performance of all Vampire cards.
We work continously to improve them.
The above test was on V4SA.



Robo Kupka

Posts 50
18 Nov 2020 07:37


Good job sir. Your % imporovement is better than Intel´s in 10 years :)


Robert Markus

Posts 18
18 Nov 2020 08:20


Great job! Can we get some info how did You do this tuning?


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
18 Nov 2020 10:00


Robert Markus wrote:

Great job! Can we get some info how did You do this tuning?

We work on several internal Core optimizations.
This instruction set is the same. For the coder nothing changes.
But we tune the core to execute some instructions even slightly faster. E.g. multibit divide = means faster divider
We are currently looking into several areas to tune the speed a little.


Jean-Baptiste Bolcato

Posts 61
18 Nov 2020 10:21


Nice work!

Faster processors week hey?
You should add some fuzzy graphs with nice curves and no legend, like the M1 presentation. ;)

More seriously, an before/after comparison in Sysinfo would be cool as I can't recall the original numbers. (currently happy with my stable older core on v500 but it may be worth the flash if the boost is significant)

Thanks for all the hard work Apollo team!


Marko Oette

Posts 11
18 Nov 2020 20:07


I really miss the "Like" button in this forum. Great news!


Darren Eveland

Posts 101
18 Nov 2020 21:11


Great work thanks Gunnar & Team! 


Mark Mc Fadden

Posts 36
30 Nov 2020 20:40


Excellent, great work


Steve Hodson

Posts 32
13 Dec 2020 00:04


Wow, it's going to be a bonus Xmas here...currently running 8.x speed of 4000/040, it's no small feat to squeeze another 10%


Steve Hodson

Posts 32
12 Jan 2021 17:28


Gunnar von Boehn wrote:

As planned for the december release R5, the Apollo Team is currently testing some performance improvements on 68080.
 
  Here the score of normal speed x12 release core: (not overclocked!)
 
 
 
 

Any update on release of R5 Core?



Renaud Schweingruber
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 378
12 Jan 2021 20:08


EXTERNAL LINK


Xtro 1975

Posts 3
22 Jan 2021 22:41


Standalone V4+ R5 core
EXTERNAL LINK

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