Omega65
20 Sep 2003, 2:01pm
PC Magazine: <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1274182,00.asp" target=_blank>Apple Power Mac G5: Neck-and-Neck with Intel</a>
G5 Specs
* Product: Apple Power Mac G5
* Price: <b>$4,349</b> direct
* Specs: With dual 2.0-GHz PowerPC G5 processors, 2GB SDRAM, 160GB SATA hard drive, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics
* Company Info: Apple Computer Inc., 408-996-1010, www.apple.com/powermac
When Apple's Steve Jobs introduced the Apple Power Mac G5 this summer as the fastest personal computer any company had built to date, we took it with a grain of salt. After all, Apple had made that boast in the past, and those claims did not tend to hold up when independent third parties (such as ourselves) ran tests on current, real-world applications (not the synthetic benchmark tests Apple cited).
Well, we'll take that salt with a side of fries. After testing a loaded ($4,349 direct, after we opted for more RAM and upgraded graphics) dual 2.0-GHz Power Mac G5 on a range of high-end content creation applications and comparing the results with a similarly configured (and priced) Dell Precision 650 Workstation running dual 3.06-GHz Xeon processors, we see that indeed the G5 is generally as fast as the best Intel-based workstations currently available
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The Power MacG5 is 28 sec slower than the Xeon 3.06ghz in the (tongue in cheek) All Important Adobe Photoshop 7 and 13 secs slower in the Newtek Lightwave tests.
This article mentions but doesn't include the widely available <a href="http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3415&highlight=Opteron+246" target=_blank>Opteron 246 (2.0ghz) 64 bit CPU</a>. And neither the new & available Xeon 3.06 1MB ($750) nor the upcomig <a href="http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3710" target=_blank>P4 3.2 2MB Extreme Edition</a> are mentioned at all.
http://www.short-media.com/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=39804
G5 Specs
* Product: Apple Power Mac G5
* Price: <b>$4,349</b> direct
* Specs: With dual 2.0-GHz PowerPC G5 processors, 2GB SDRAM, 160GB SATA hard drive, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics
* Company Info: Apple Computer Inc., 408-996-1010, www.apple.com/powermac
When Apple's Steve Jobs introduced the Apple Power Mac G5 this summer as the fastest personal computer any company had built to date, we took it with a grain of salt. After all, Apple had made that boast in the past, and those claims did not tend to hold up when independent third parties (such as ourselves) ran tests on current, real-world applications (not the synthetic benchmark tests Apple cited).
Well, we'll take that salt with a side of fries. After testing a loaded ($4,349 direct, after we opted for more RAM and upgraded graphics) dual 2.0-GHz Power Mac G5 on a range of high-end content creation applications and comparing the results with a similarly configured (and priced) Dell Precision 650 Workstation running dual 3.06-GHz Xeon processors, we see that indeed the G5 is generally as fast as the best Intel-based workstations currently available
===================================
The Power MacG5 is 28 sec slower than the Xeon 3.06ghz in the (tongue in cheek) All Important Adobe Photoshop 7 and 13 secs slower in the Newtek Lightwave tests.
This article mentions but doesn't include the widely available <a href="http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3415&highlight=Opteron+246" target=_blank>Opteron 246 (2.0ghz) 64 bit CPU</a>. And neither the new & available Xeon 3.06 1MB ($750) nor the upcomig <a href="http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3710" target=_blank>P4 3.2 2MB Extreme Edition</a> are mentioned at all.
http://www.short-media.com/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=39804