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.

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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!