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"BARE facts on Macintosh speed FEATS" G5 2GHz MP Versus G4 1.42GHz MP Posted 7/25/03. Updated 8/27/03. Updated 9/13/03 with After Effects 6.0 results. Updated 11/17/03 with G5 aware versions of Photoshop 7.01, Cinebench 2003, Unreal Tournament 2003, and AltiVec Fractal. Many of you are asking how the Dual 2Ghz G5 compares to the Dual 1.42GHz G4. I've gathered up test results from various sources around the globe (New York, Italy and Germany) along with tests run in our own lab. Photoshop 7.01 results with the G5 Plug-in. G4/1.42GHz MP G5/2GHz MP G5 advantage Non MP-aware actions (seconds) 73 53 38% MP-aware actions (seconds) 35 28 25% Bryce 5 render of Beach Chair. (The advantage of the G5 can be attributed to heavy use of L2 cache and FPU.) G4/1.42GHz MP G5/2GHz MP G5 advantage Beach Chair render (seconds) 37 22 68% Cinebench 2003 CPU Render. (The G5 numbers were updated with the new G5 aware version of Cinebench.) G4/1.42GHz MP G5/2GHz MP G5 advantage Multiprocessor CPU Render (seconds) 107 51 110% Adobe After Effects 6.0 Tryout. (Ten frame render of Nighflight sample file.) G4/1.42GHz MP G5/2GHz MP G5 advantage Ten frame render of Nighflight (seconds) 593 361 64% BotMatch in Unreal Tournament 2003. (Average of Anatalus and Asbestos at 1024x768 Max settings. The G5's numbers have been update with the latest patch of UT2003.) G4/1.42GHz MP G5/2GHz MP G5 advantage BotMatch (frames per second) 30 65 117% MacTechNews' SpeedTest benchmark is new to me. I can't comment on the validity, but I was most impressed by the OpenGL portion of the test. It seemed more useful than the OpenGL test on Xbench. G4/1.42GHz MP G5/2GHz MP G5 advantage CPU rating 326 606 86% QUARTZ rating 238 379 59% OPENGL rating 360 565 57% AltiVec Fractal test on a G5/2GHz MP (from New York). 65K points G4/1.42GHz.MP G5/2GHz MP advantage Gigaflops 10.8 14.8 37%		Search this site powered by FreeFind
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