Arm, SH3, MIPS?

[10inchAssassin]

What is the speed difference between these different processors types. Which is the oldest or the worst. And what do they stand for. And any other information you could add. Thanks.

[Maf54]

I must say the worst is SH3. Then I think its kinda tie between ARM and MIPS, don't know much about these two except AMD made a 1 ghz MIPS processor.

[10inchAssassin]

Oh ok thanks. But then why are there always games saying. They will make a MIPS version. Or people beg for MIPS versions. If ARM and MIPS run about the same then why would you need seperate versions. Thanks for the answer though. I'm still new to the pocket pc fray

[Digby]

When I make posts begging for a MIPS version of some program or port, I'm just being sarcastic.

There used to be a small, but very vocal number of whiners who had older PPC2000 Casio devices that wanted devs to continue to produce MIPS versions of software after MS cut support of non-ARM CPUs in 2002. You don't hear much of that anymore unless it's from people like me that are just being silly.

[10inchAssassin]

Thanks for the reply. With little bits I can piece them together.

[DillRye]

I know some of the posts above talked about this allready, but a few of them are misleading.

Basically, the order of speed goes like this:

-Slowest-
SH3
MIPS
ARM
-Fastest-

I believe an ARM proc is almost if not more than 10 times faster than a sh3. A mips is not too far off from an ARM, but far enough where it matters.

Some people like to talk about how some company made a MIPS proc at some crazy speed, but they are mistaken in thier corrilation to the pocket pc.

MIPS is a specific processor arcitecture, the power pc chips that run many MACs are MIPS processors, and there have been many different MIPS processors that run alot faster than the ones in pocket pc's, but that is because they are full blown desktop processors. Heck, I even designed a basic MIPS processor in class.....

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[Presto]

Anyone know the latest word on Samsung's processor? Like what devices it will be in? Have any company's announced that they'll use it? Have any benchmarks been posted demonstrating its performance?

The only information I have so far is the <a href='http://www.samsung.com/PressCenter/PressRelease/TelecommunicationNews/TelecommunicationNews_20030721_0000007812.htm'>press release</a>, which states they'll be out in the fourth quarter.

Thanks, John

[James S]

They're ARM processors, and run faster than XScale. Check out the PocketQuake I forum, the sticky Benchmark Archive thread at the top, the iPaq H1945 uses the Samsung processor at 266MHz, it's nearly as fast as the 400MHz PXA255.

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