PC Mag G5 vs Xeon 3.06ghz Benchmarks
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
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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.
G5 Specs
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* 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,
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.
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Opteron 246 (2) $1600
PC2700 ECC Registered (1GB DIMMs) 2GB $500
ATI 9800 Pro $300
WD SATA 250GB Harddrive $300
8X DVD Dual Format Burner $250
Case and accessories $200
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Total $3400
And the
Dual Opteron 246 (2.0ghz) vs Xeon 3.06ghz 512K & Xeon 3.06ghz 1MB
BUY IMO For the Price you can get better performance forma a dual Opteron Setup.....
Only time will tell.......
Ati like the G5 came well before software was ready for it.
And when they started coming, the so called leaders of the Pack are ducking for cover!
But yet, software for the G5 is still very premature and still doesn't take full control of its capabilities, not even the current Mac Os X, support it fully, it just allows it to work.
I’v seen many tests run by third-party vendors, and some stated that the G5 was slower than a P4 2.4 or 1.6AMD, others say it is the fastest computer in the world, and they have benchies to prove it.
Only time will tell, only time. (I still don't know why people go out and buy expensive hardware to use for future apps, when software that will natively run it properly will be out later, and the currently hardware will be heaps more cheap to buy, still gets me buggled)
Current benchies are still very premature!!!