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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. No by autopr0n · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

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