MacWorld Magazine Benchmarks the G5s

La Temperanza writes "Macworld has released yet another set of benchmarks of the full line-up of G5 desktops, along with Dual 1.42GHz and single 1GHz G4s. The results are very interesting indeed, and I think I can safely say they're not biased in the G5's favor." I dunno, it should not come as too much of a shock that a dual G4 can beat a single G5 in many tests.

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URL for MacAddict benchmark

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.macaddict.com/news/news_007.html

Re:Bus speed, ddr memory path, floating point????

[patman600]

The g5's memory advantage won't be a big deal in this test. Each system only has 512 MB of ram. The photoshop file is only 50 MB, so I assume a larger file would cause the difference to increase. I suspect that if the benchmarks were done on much more demanding tasks, such as multi-gigabyte renders, or a lot of muti-tasking, and giving the g5 its full amount of memory, the differences would be more pronounced.

Re:Apple did not invent desktop media

[daviddennis]

Nice try. In 1998, when I bought my first Mac, it was by far the best solution for digital video. People with PCs had to suffer through a ton of flakiness just to set up their systems, much less get anything done with them. I was editing video almost out of the box.

Shortly after I got my system, the iMac came up and really introduced desktop video to the masses with the iMac DV.

Back in those days, if you wanted the best computing had to offer, you needed a Mac for video, a PC for work and a Unix box for web stuff. Now you can put all those functions into a Mac and still do well.

These are happy days for Mac fans. It's not the world's most popular computer, but it's by far the best in terms of usability and fun.

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20X speed up on mac addict!!!

[goombah99]

Mac addict shows that in photoshop a G5 with 2Gigs of memory is 20x faster than one with 512MB. While more memory is better always, this probably is showing that g5 can really access is effectively.