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."

Comments

NASA never benchmarked the G5!

[Anonymous Coward]

It was a hardware simulator running on a soundstage.

SETI

[elliotj]

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.

Re:SETI

[I Like Swords!!!]

Yes, but just think of how much MORE static you can have SETI run computations on... It's like watching a blank tape in fast-play.

Re:Wha?

[angst7]

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?
</karma burn>

Re:Single Processor Mode

[Chazmati]

Man, and all this time I was thinking C.H.U.D. stood for Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers!

Bebox

[fredistheking]

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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