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Posted
March 23rd, 2001
by rob
ART morgan,
mad Mac scientist
PERFORMANCE
ANALYSIS
WINNER
OF THIS SHOOTOUT: A tie between the G4/733 and the
Dual G4/533. (Each won 3 of the 6 performance tests
listed above.)
How
does the "666.6" stand up? It gets beat not only by
the 733 but the Dual 533 beats it in 4 out of 6
tests. It's not a "bad" machine, but with no
SuperDrive and a higher price than the Dual 533,
it's hard to imagine why anyone would buy
it.
The
SOLO 533 deserves "honorable mention." The G4/733
has a 37.5% faster clock speed, on-chip cache,
multiple FPU's, and multiple Velocity Engines. Yet
it was only 15.4% faster than the SOLO G3/533
(average of the above 6 tests).
RELATED
LINKS
Rick LePage has
posted a comparison
of the G4/733 to a Dual
G4/500
and Single G4/400 on MacInTouch.
Read Dan Knight's
reaction to these tests and his cost analysis on a
page he calls, "One
Brain Or Two?"
(Low End Mac)
Which is
faster,
the Radeon or the GeForce2?
Read about the
UN-optimized
Photoshop 6.0 for Pentium
fiasco.
TEST
HARDWARE
Test
machines:
G4/733 Power Mac
G4/667 Power Mac
Dual G4/533 Power Mac
Solo G4/533 Power Mac
Dual G4/500 Power Mac
Solo G4/500 Power Mac
XLR8 MACh
Velocity G4 MPe 66
Dual G4/500 in a Beige G3/266 MT
G3/500 ZIF upgrade in a Beige G3/266 MT
All
machines had 256MB of RAM and Mac OS 9.1
For the Quake 3 Arena test, each had either a
GeForce2 MX or Radeon graphics card.
Radeon PCI and AGP cards provided courtesy of
ATI
Technologies
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