how fast is taht G5?

[thewer]

[quote="gb":7210ff95ca]
[quote="thewer":7210ff95ca]Intel?! GHz for GHZ the G5 is faster than any P4 chip... AMD and Pentium M are more comparable (but I think still slower) to G5 chip GHz for GHz...
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FYI, I had the occasion to benchmark early prototypes of Opteron. SPECint2k benchmarks on a 1.6 GHz proto outperformed what Apple published in their "aggressive" compaign (VeriTest) for the 2.0 GHz G5 model. And since I was in a hurry, I only ran the benchmarks with default options for GCC 3.2... I couldn't compare FP performance because I didn't have a Fortran 9x compiler.
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I can understand that as opteron is their server type chip... Which in *MY* min is like the POWER5 chip rather than the G5... I was more thinking Athlon XP (32 bit) and even the 64bit... But yes, if you compare against opteron then G5 may well lose (especially if it is a memory intensive test as the memory talkey thing that apple use is around 2 times slower than all hi end PC talkey memory bits according to some server test done somewhere on the net).

thewer ;)

[thewer]

[quote="bachok83":dee61bacdb]
i would say those are very rough comparison.

It is tough to say that one is faster than the other. The only way to really compare between 2 processors is to run a uniform benchmark program, which i dont think there isnt any (currently), or is it?
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Which is why I said [quote:dee61bacdb]
from a useability perspective NOT a bench mark perspective.
[/quote:dee61bacdb] After all benchmarks are great for getting numbers, but as people know this isnt everything... After all Photoshop has been tuned for altivec very well, so i will probably run much better on a mac than a PC. As for using GHz it was more of a way of identifying the chips rather than anything else. And as you said... they are very rough comparisons.. After all you are going to be running software on your computer not a benchmark. And different software can run better on a "slower" (benchmarked) machine because of different optimizations... The comparisons were from actual machines that I have used (or own) whil doing video editing, and which feel more responsive whil being used for things like browsing the internet with 20 to 50 tabs open in various web browsers..

thewer ;)

[bachok83]

n'mind.. this all will end soon.. as apple is switching to intel... LOL...

[prasys]

who cares anyware..if you want G5 , get...all of them (x86/ppc macs) run OSX

[thewer]

[quote="prasys":accf04d0c6]
who cares anyware..
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the guy who asked did/does.

thewer ;)