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NASA Benchmarks the New G5 Powermac

Posted by michael on from the measuring-up dept.

sockit2me9000 writes "Well NASA's Langley Research Center recently benchmarked the new G5 dual 2ghz Powermac against a dual 1ghz Xserve, a dual 1.25 ghz Powermac, a Pentium4 2 ghz, and a Pentium4 2.66 ghz. To make things fair, the second processor in the G5 was switched off, as well as the other dual sysytems. Then, they all ran Jet3d. Even with un-optimized code and one processor, the G5 performance is impressive."

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  1. apple marketing by qewl · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I guess Apple was legit in its marketing of calling it the fastest PC ever..

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  2. MFLOP/Mhz.. What about MFLOP/$ by philask · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What a pointless test, I hate to say it but the new G5's are just stupidly expensive. I can't believe anyone in a government environment would put together a farm of G5's instead of a farm of Intel processors...

    The REAL metric should be MFLOP/$

  3. Re:Wha? by Commutative+Monoid · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And a 2.66GHz P4 barely edged out the 2GHz G5 in scalar floating-point operations, a task it isn't even particularly good at per-clock. If you read the great-grandparent, I think you'll notice that he mentioned the dual CPU score of the G5. So while you're reading the fucking article, you can consider reading the fucking comments, too.

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  4. HOGWASH! by flikx · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    *BSD went belly-up in 1999. Mac OSX is actaully based on VMS.

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  5. Re:No by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    sane people.