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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. Snide comments on "supercomputer" show bias by jdb8167 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I know people are going to claim that the SPEC marks aren't susceptible to bias but the SPEC suite only test traditional architectures. As far as I know, they don't test for SIMD vector processing like the altivec.

    No one ever claimed that the FP alone on the G4 was at supercomputer status, just that the G4 in conjunction with Altivec could crunch at FLOPs at "supercomputer" speeds.

    Keep in mind that OS X is hardly optimized for this kind of test. OS X has just recently reached the point where it is useful as a general purpose platform. But Apple is making a big push in the scientific computing area so I expect that you will find vast improvements in the SPEC FP suite in the future.