Preliminary OS X & PPC 970 Benchmarks

Dixie_Flatline writes "Macbidouille.com is reporting that they have preliminary benchmarks involving PPC970 hardware. The results are seriously impressive. We're looking at a single processor PPC 970 1.4GHz machine quite strikingly outperforming a dual G4 1.42GHz machine. Don't worry, there's an English translation embedded in the page so you don't have to try to muddle through the French." Update: 05/05 19:58 GMT by T : Thanks to Eric from macbidouille.com, above link updated to a static page; hopefully you'll get better response this way.

Comments

Re:Umm.... who knows if these are real?

[Blondie-Wan]

Hell, for that matter, the translation sounds made up - given that near-random assemblage of English words and phrases, for all I know the original French could be talking about how slow the 970 is. Still, I suppose it's more coherent than much of what one sees on Slashdot...

;)

Re:Altivec?

[DougM]

Here is a link to IBM's PowerPC 970 announcement from Dec 2002. Note the references to AltiVec and the acknowledgement of the trademark belonging to Motorola.

http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/products/powerpc/newsle tter/dec2002/newproductfocus2.html

An interesting read. Enjoy!

Re:Altivec?

[Brandon Sharitt]

The Gx naming is Apple's own marketing scheme.

What's up w/moderators

[denjin]

I see -so- many things modded up today that are wrong. The 970 uses VMX or something, which is justanother way to say it uses Altivec. Its -VERY- easy to check and see that it's altivec compatible.

Research before you mod on someone...