Apple Issues New G5 Benchmarks

rocketjam writes "According to an article in The Register, Apple has issued SPEC benchmarks for the new dual G5 2GHz machines, comparing it to a two-way Dell Xeon and a 3Ghz Pentium 4 machine. The article says the G5 lagged behind the Dells in integer performance, however in 'the parallel "rate" benchmarks, which tax both of the CPUs in the test machines, the G5 edged out the Xeon 17.2 to 16.7 in the integer score and 15.7 to 11.1 in the floating point tests, suggesting Apple makes far better use of its two CPUs than the Xeon machine....the results augur well for Apple G5 performance in technical and scientific computing environments and for playing games.'"

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[nurb432]

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Test it vs. a dual sparc machine

[192939495969798999]

Test that computer or any of your generic dual-proc PC's against a Sun dual-proc Ultrasparc box and be prepared to cry. There's a reason that Sun's multiprocessor machines are expensive -- you get what you pay for.

ha ha

[M.C. Hampster]

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Yeah, go ahead, mod this one down too.

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