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Apple Issues New G5 Benchmarks

Posted by pudge on from the i-want-one dept.

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.'"

13 of 661 comments (clear)

  1. Obligatory... by GatorMan · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...first post.

    See, the benchmarks weren't faked all along ;)

  2. fist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    not first post

  3. It's AUGUR you moron! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Awww, are you having a bad -1 day today?

  4. OH MAN I'M SO BAKED!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Anyone got any Cheetos or Twinkies? I need to eat something now! Jesus K-Riste! Uh oh... I think I hear the cops outside my door...

    1. Re:OH MAN I'M SO BAKED!!!! by Trolling4Dollars · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I don't have any of that, but if you want some more pot, I have access to some pretty potent wacky tabacky that I can try and FTP to you. Just go here and log in as "gdubya":

      ftp.whitehouse.gov

      Password is: letsroll

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  5. UNSUCCESPHUL ATTEMT AT HUMOR SI ON TEH SPOKE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  6. FIRST [G5] POST !!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm posting this from my new G5 and if the benchmarks are true, then i should not fail it. In your face slower DELL first posters!

    Hey wait a minute, this isn't first post!?

  7. The word for today is Auger" by nurb432 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Who ever said you cant learn something by reading slashdot..

    Your goal today is to use the 'word of the day' at least 10 times today.

    Tomrrow's word will be....

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  8. Test it vs. a dual sparc machine by 192939495969798999 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

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  9. First post from my G5! by mao+che+minh · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Haha, all of this blinding new speed is really helping with my first posts now!

  10. RFID Tag by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This article is tag number AF16E82R665TLS8.

  11. ha ha by M.C.+Hampster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I see the Apple zealots have mod points today. :-)

    Yeah, go ahead, mod this one down too.

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  12. Re:Apple Information Minister by Qwell · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mod parent up. Based solely on .sig

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