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Re: Speed test on Mac G5, anyone? [message #35759 is a reply to message #35615]

Tue, 08 July 2003 20:56

Richard French
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Registered: December 2000

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>
> It is too bad apple didn't submit SPEC CPU2000 results for the PPC G4 (at
> least I couldn't find them on the spec site. Maybe you can dig up some
> unofficial scores). While the SPEC CPU benchmarks they released for the PPC
> 970 should be taken with a shaker full of salt the comparison would be a
> start.
>
From
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030625. gtsandyjune25/BN
Story/Technology/

Nice to see that they included Mathematica in the bake-off:

"What really matters, of course, is real world performance. Apple made its
case on Monday with impressive benchmark test results and a series of live
demos that pitted a dual-processor 2.0 GHz PowerMac G5 test system against
two Intel-based computers: a 3.0 GHz Pentium 4 and a 3.06 GHz dual-processor
Xeon system.

"Marketing demos are always chosen to highlight a product's best features.
Past Apple "bake-off" tests have usually featured Adobe Photoshop doing
difficult things with graphics, which played to the Mac's strengths. This
time, however, the demos highlighted graphic performance (Photoshop),
animation (Luxology), pro audio (Logic) and large-scale numerical problem
solving (Mathematica).

"Wolfram Research co-founder Theo Gray concluded his demo of Mathematica
with this observation: "The competition for [the PowerMac G5] is not PCs
anymore. The competition for our customers is high-end workstations that
cost twice as much. And it's faster than all of them, too."

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		Re: Speed test on Mac G5, anyone? By: Rick Towler on Thu, 03 July 2003 16:05
		Re: Speed test on Mac G5, anyone? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 03 July 2003 13:50
		Re: Speed test on Mac G5, anyone? By: Rick Towler on Thu, 03 July 2003 11:41
		Re: Speed test on Mac G5, anyone? By: JD Smith on Thu, 03 July 2003 07:49
		Re: Speed test on Mac G5, anyone? By: mperrin+news on Wed, 02 July 2003 23:48
		Re: Speed test on Mac G5, anyone? By: Richard French on Tue, 08 July 2003 20:58
		Re: Speed test on Mac G5, anyone? By: Richard French on Tue, 08 July 2003 20:56

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