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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. Turn the optimizations on first. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You have to optimize your bloody code for a particular IA. They have probably compared the i386 generated code against the one for G5...

    I hope they didn't use gcc (the yet-another free and hopeless compiler).

  2. 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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  3. Sorry G5 Trolls by ciroknight · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Looks like once again /. Trolls were slapped in the face. Nice try though.
    YOU FAIL IT!!!

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  4. 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/$

  5. Re:NASA Verifies Apple Benchmarks? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    is this the same NASA that keeps blowing people
    up and dumping body bits across the nation?

    its the same NASA, right?

    macintosh ... yeah

  6. Wha? by autopr0n · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well, yes. If you compare the fastest possible dual G5 to the fastest single p4, the dual g5 would win. So what? If you want the fastest, get a dual athlon.

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    1. 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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  7. HOGWASH! by flikx · · Score: 0, Flamebait

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

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  8. Re:Damn Dude, RTFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I expect that you pulled that last comment straight out of your stinking anus, given the amount you know about the architectures.

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

    sane people.

  10. Re:Single Processor Mode by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You forgot the little "under $3000" part. It seems your reading comprehension is about on par with a 4 year-old. However, I suppose that's typical of the Wintel community...

  11. Re:Single Processor Mode by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    See WhiteBandit's list - dickhead. And don't cry too much over the $1000 you wasted.