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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 how SCO will affect Mac OS X ? I heard that Mac OS is based on FreeBSD which is a distro of Linux right? I hope Mac doesn't get suied.
Tell me this is a troll. Please!
As you can see I don't care about my karma.
Ummm... Did either you OR the moderators that modded you up manage to READ the article at all or did you just looks at the pretty bar graphs? I'll break it down for ya...
"In terms of raw MFLOPS, the 2GHz G5 is about 32% faster than the 2GHz P4, 97% faster than the 1.25GHz G4, 142% faster than the 1GHz G4, and within 1 MFLOP of the 2.66GHz P4"
Summary... The 2GHz G5 is *very* slightly slower than the older 2.66GHz. (3GHz machines are out now). As far as the second bar graph goes who gives a crap about how fast something is per MHz? Seriously moderators... read the article... that goes for you too ciroknight. You Apple fanboys are ridiculous sometimes.
Real Translation: 0.4% slower, at 75% of the clock speed.
Real translation fastest G5 0.4% then mid-range p4. Don't forget it was you Mac zealots who screamed 'clock speed doesn't matter'! You could probably make custom hardware that would chew through this application at 100mhz if you really wanted to.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
I agree. And if you are going to test Apples fastest dual G5, then test it against Intels fastest Dual processor as well. If you are going to test a $3,000 dollar G5, then test against a dual Inetl P4 with the best stuff you can get for $3,000. Tests should be fair across the board and then you can see what is the best you can get for that $3,000. I have my money on a $3,000 Inetl setup over a $3,000 Apple setup.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land,
it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -James Madison
This is coming from an organisation that can't land a shuttle... NASA, Need Another Seven Astronauts... Although I use a mac :)
do this simply with the cpus= boot argument
LMAO - this is a mac user talking about a boot argument! I thought that was for users of less sophisticated, difficult to use, antiquated command line based oses. Apparently the grass was greener... in the neighbor's yard.
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