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Gigahertz Mac Finally SPEC'd

Posted by pudge on from the mo-speed-mo-speed-mo-speed dept.

FrkyD writes "C't magazine puplished a story with the results of a test they designed using a Mac OS X-adapted benchmark suite by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) entitled CPU2000. SPEC allows comparisons to be made within a certain framework with the Intel competition. They compared the G4/1 GHz running Mac OS X with a PIII/1 GHz (Coppermine) running Windows and Linux."

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  1. Re:It all comes down to application by mr100percent · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Unfortunately SPEC is optimized for Intel processors, and is NOT written to even see the Altivec. Plus, it doesn't even see the G4's extra pipelines or registers. In short, it's not coded to see any advantage of the G4, while any other "Hello World" program compiled to PPC would run laps around the SPEC app.