Intel 210200-002 manual Appendix

APPENDIX

CONCLUSION

The results of this benchmark study show that for the programs used, the Intel iAPX 88/10 significantly out- performed the Motorola MC6809. In absolute execution speed, the iAPX 88/10 proved to be 860{0 faster than the MC6809 (using the Adjusted Average). When compared at equal memory access times, the iAPX 88/10 outper- formed the MC6809 by 1l00{0. On the basis of coding efficiency, the iAPX 88/10 generated less than half as much object code as the MC6809. In the Ease of Pro- gramming category, the results showed that the MC6809 required more than 2.6 times the number of lines of code required by the iAPX 88/10. These results are summarized in the table below.

Table 6. Performance Breakdown

	Performance Ratio of
Performance Category	iAPX 88 to MC6809
Execution Speed	iAPX 88/10 is J.86X
(Fastest)	faster
Execution Speed'	iAPX 88/10 is 2. lOX
	faster
Coding Efficiency	iAPX 88/10 is J.47X
	more efficient
Ease of Programming	iAPX 88/10 is 2.67X
	more efficient
"WIth equal speed memory

The iAPX 88 is the highest performance 8-bit micro- processor in the market today. The already superior per- formance of the iAPX 88 will be increased by 60% when the 8 MHz version is available.in 1981. This, together with the upgrade path to other object code compatible processor series in the Microsystem 80 product line (iAPX 86, iAPX 188, 186 and iAPX 286, 288), and the unequalled hardware and software support, makes it clear that Intel delivers the best solution to the many ap- plications which require a powerful 8-bit microproc- essor.

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