Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 365 from 2003/3/28
takemehomegrandma,
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I remember the Articia-S controller. Rated to be AGP 2x in speed and marketed as such. In real tests (that was conducted by various community members many, many years ago) it turned out that the real-life data bandwidth was about AGP 0.5x in practice, due to a buggy/unfinished design (they were only made for development boards, like the Terons, that someone resold as AmigaOne's.) It's not always about "settings" to get something right, some times a design can just have been released too early, too underdeveloped, too untested, and wasn't really meant for end-user markets anyway.
MAI logic were incompetent, they didn't test the chip properly and didn't even know it had basic faults.
Some faults can be very difficult to find - but not the basic ones.
The PA6T was designed by people who knew what they were doing. Some of them have quite a record, Alpha, StrongARM, Opteron, and now Apple's A6.
There could be a number of other reasons though, it's designed to run code for a G5, it may simply be bad at running code designed for a G4. Maybe the 32 bit mode sucks.
