Accelerator Speeds
To better track IIe Accelerator testing this page has been created. Please update the table below with your findings.
As with any page on this Wiki, use the Discussion page (link above) to discuss your findings or related topics.
History
There are many accelerators for the Apple II over the years. Their speeds and processing ability have all been highly debated. This page was created to help document their test results, and is updateable by the Community.
Downloads / Software
As other software is written it will be posted here and the comparison charts updated / added.
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SpeedTest v2.2.2 with NSC and UltraWarp Patch. In "DSK" format.
On July 4th, 2017 Plamen Vaysilov (Пламен Вайсилов) modified modified "Speed Test" for the IIe to use a No Slot Clock to more carefully time tests.
Accelerator Comparison
| Accelerator Speed Results Using "Speed Test" for the II/+/e/c. | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline Stock Time |
IIc+ 4MHz |
AE TransWarp 3.6MHz |
AE TransWarp][ 8MHz |
FastChip //e 16.6MHz |
McT SpeedDemon Accelerator II |
McT SpeedDemon Accelerator IIe |
Titan Technologies Accelerator IIe |
UltraWarp V1.91G 16.6MHz |
ZIPChip 4 Mhz |
ZIPChip 8 Mhz | |||||||||
| Memory Read | 119.2(122) | 32 | 37 | 18 | 17.02 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 14.9 | 30 | 7.011 | ||||||||
| Memory Write | 119.2(122) | 34 | 59 | 30 | 4.110 | 41 | 41 | 63 | 2.292 | 32 | 3.845 | ||||||||
| Memory Read (Zero Page) |
119.6(122) | 32 | 37 | 18 | 17.08 | 37 | 36 | 38 | 17.08 | 30 | 7.035 | ||||||||
| Memory Write (Zero Page) |
119.6(122) | 34 | 37 | 37 | 17.08 | 43 | 43 | 38 | 17.08 | 41 | 3.417 | ||||||||
| Indirect References | 124(129) | 35 | 40 | 20 | 15.5 | 39 | 39 | 41 | 9.538 | 33 | 6.526 | ||||||||
| Branch Calculations | 119.3(122) | 32 | 37 | 18 | 17.04 | 37 | 36 | 38 | 17.04 | 33 | 7.017 | ||||||||
| Register Variables | 83.3(86) | 24 | 26 | 13 | 16.66 | 26 | 26 | 27 | 13.88 | 30 | 6.941 | ||||||||
| Instruction Fetch | 114(116) | 31 | 35 | 17 | 16.28 | 35 | 35 | 37 | 14.25 | 21 | 6.705 | ||||||||
| CPU Instruction Mix | 114(116) | 33 | 35 | 21 | 16.28 | 35 | 35 | 37 | 16.28 | 30 | 5.7 | ||||||||
| Direct Text Writes | 115(119) | 36 | 67 | 24 | 2.674 | 38 | 37 | 67 | 1.825 | 30 | 4.423 | ||||||||
| Direct Text Writes #2 | 118(122) | 37 | 68 | 24 | 2.744 | 38 | 38 | 69 | 1.815 | 34 | 4.538 | ||||||||
| BIOS Text Write | 224 | 208 | 51 | .7267 | 247 | 246 | 211 | .4854 | 35 | .5792 | |||||||||
| Direct LoRes Writes | 118(120) | 32 | 51 | 21 | 4.72 | 36 | 36 | 54 | 3.277 | 30 | 5.9 | ||||||||
| High-Res Memory Writes | 114.5(116) | 32 | 42 | 19 | 5.452 | 36 | 35 | 47 | 5.452 | 29 | 6.361 | ||||||||
| MLI Full Disk Read | 18(26) | 0 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
All testing was done on the same Apple IIe (Cooper's). The numbers shown in the ( ) are the stock baseline numbers for his machine. NOTE they are slower than the programs listed baseline numbers.
Machine Configuration: 1987 IIe Platinum, Slot0-MS Softcard IIe, Slot1-Accelerator** Slot2-A2Heaven RamFactor8M, Slot3-Uthernet II, Slot4-A2Heaven Mockingboard-T, Slot5-CFFA3k, Slot6-Vtech Floppy Controller(with NSC under ROM) and Slot7-A2Heaven VGA adapter.