Andreas,

yes you are right, everything is task specific
If the code is heavy on FP-code or bandwidth use a G5, if it is AltiVec use a T4. If you have pseudo-random access tasks use a CPU with an integrated memory controller and don't use a G5.

I have only tried to put the CPUs in relation to each other ...
How do I know that the code is G4 optimized? Because for a long time it was the only CPU in Amiga land available

And yes, of course you could use every CPU for desktop use. You could also use a T4 as a curler
But that isn't the point. The question is, what's the target market?
IBM could build a really sweet desktop CPU for sure, BUT who will buy such a CPU?
If IBM tomorrow presents a CPU twice as good as everything Intel is able to offer on the desktop, how cares? If Amigaians use this CPU, how cares? Sadly, nobody.

It doesn't matter what outside the WinTel or MacTel world is going on. Nobody cares about "die hard" PowerPC or Amiga fans. Its just irrelevant.

If 2000€ is too much money for a "Amiga" computer, then maybe every morphOS or AmigaOS user should spend 2000€ for a x86 port of the OS.

Edit: It surprises me, that everyone is surprised about the performance of the NXP offerings ... who in hell has really thought, that a T4 is as fast as the latest Intel offerings? And holy ***, the X5000 does costs money ... What would be a good price of the X5000? 1000$? 500$? What production quantity? 5000pcs? 50000pcs?

[ Editiert durch AltiVeced 26.01.2016 - 20:08 ]