Accelerator Speeds

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To better track IIe Accelerator testing this page has been created. Please update the table below with your findings.

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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.

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.
Notes:
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 117(307) 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

NSC|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.