Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 12125 from 2003/5/22
From: Germany
> My X1000 [...] is using the e6500 core (I think)
It is not, of course. Freescale
announced their e6500 in 2011, which was short of 6 years after P.A. Semi
announced their PA6T. More info there:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PWRficienthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_e6500https://www.nxp.com/products/microcontrollers-and-processors/power-architecture-processors/qoriq-platforms/e6500:E6500> instead of the "weaker?" e5500, e600, or any other PPC core design.
Whether or not PA6T is stronger than e5500 or e600/G4 is surely open to debate and very much depends on the considered performance aspects (integer vs. floating point, cache etc.).