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NASA Benchmarks the New G5 Powermac
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."
I wonder why none of the NASA boxes were running Windows? I mean, if it's an all sinigng all dancing solution to everything...
(It's ok, you can mod me -1 Troll now. I'm just bitter about an edict on a project I'm working on.)
Beep beep.
I guess this makes me the 10th fan...oh wait...
It was a hardware simulator running on a soundstage.
Personally though, I want to see how well it runs Seti@Home
My bet is you still won't find any signs of Alien life. So it won't be any better than my old crappy ass P1 166.
But good luck to ya.
Though dual processor benchmarks are not presented in detail here, it is worth noting that the G5 system benchmarked at 498 MFLOPS and 0.125 MFLOPS/MHz for scalar Jet3D performance when two processors were used.
That was the above poster's point. Mkay?
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Well this story really makes me nervous. After taking in the comments from fellow /. readers, I am now convinced that Apple has conspired with the NASA Langley Research Center to make the G5 CPU look fast. The real clever bit was how they only used one CPU, and and unoptimized compiler, just to make it look "authentic" I suppose. Clever bastards. But they'll never fool me. They have my crappy ass Wintel box when they pry it from my numb, pale fingers.
Apple Rocked By "G5" Scandal.
Just one week after the "G5"'s introduction, Apple has been hit by shocking allegations that the name of the chip powering the computer is nothing more than a tawdry attempt at huckstering, worthy of the lowest flim-flam artist.
According to highly placed industry sources, the "G5" is actually the IBM PowerPC 970, and Apple has been using the "G5" name simply to sell more computers.
Through a systematic application of underhanded techniques known as "marketing," Apple attempted to convince customers that the "G5" was newer and a step above its previous computers.
"Apple has plaster the 'G5' moniker all over its promotional materials," said InfoWorld's Tom Yager. "And it's all a lie. They made that name up."
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A 2.66 MHz P4? I imagine that one of those would be tough to beat!
We'll only stop running benchmarks until Intel wins.
We'll only stop counting until Bush wins.
Buncha damn liberal hippies anyway...
Man, and all this time I was thinking C.H.U.D. stood for Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers!
Damn liberal editors caving int those artsy-fartsy mac users again...
How dare you print a story that derides the paragon of the IT hardware industry, Intel, as being second best to a processor installed in a machine maniufactured by those long-haired elitist at Apple.
And to think that you would accept the word from those commie "scientist" down at NASA, who sit around doing nothing all day except "thinking" and playing with thier toys at taxpayer expense.
Shame, shame, next thing youl be tryin' to convince me that Linux OS is more secure than the hallowed work that our hero in capitolism, Bill Gates, does at microsoft. It's bad for the economy, I tell you. All these long haired, smelly, weirdos keep messing with our good old American way of life. What, you say you want a choice? You have a choice! You'll choose from what choices we here at the Central Office tell you to choose from!
Take your Open Source, MacIntosh, OS-X (You don't think I know whaty OS-X really means, do you, but I do, smarty pants, I do indeed..), and whatever else it is you keep trying to give us and go back to Russia, or wherever it is that you came from. Who invited you to our red-blooded American industral party anyway? Nobody! That's who!
Why you pnko, beatnik, hippy, givin' it all away, don't think you need the establishment faggo...
and so on,
and so on,
and so...
Read, L
The Opteron is being ignored because no one is
buying them.
You probably noticed you weren't running on a G5 either. I'm confident that if you can score a G5 system this early, getting 10.2.7 to go with it isn't much of a challenge.
-- Gary Goldberg KA3ZYW 301/249-6501 AIM:OgGreeb Digital Marketing Inc., Bowie, MD
Does anyone remember the dual-ppc that the BeOS people were originally selling? Anyway, you could turn off one of the processors but if you wanted to, you could turn them both off. I think they evenrtually removed this feature. =)
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What's MGh?
Me-Gaga-hertz?
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You can switch the second processor off permanently by simply taking a hammer to it.