Author: William Bryant
Date: 18:50:32 03/23/05
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On March 23, 2005 at 21:33:37, Frank E. Oldham wrote: >On March 23, 2005 at 20:46:09, Peter Stayne wrote: > >>:) oops! :) >> >>A bit disappointing though, I was among those excited to see Apple embracing >>POWER5 as I like to see some competition for the x86 architecture. I'm very >>happy to see AMD starting to make strides in market share versus Intel, would be >>nice to see a whole other architecture in the mix at the top. > >The G5 still uses the 970 or 970FX which are POWER4 derivatives. For a machine >which is now 1.5 years old, crafty bench of 2.6 mnps is pretty good -- only the >dual opterons and dual 3.4 Xeons beat that, and a dual 2.5 should bench over 3.2 >mnps. A couple of points. 1. if optomized corrrectly, I get 3.1 (3.06) MPS on a duel 2.5, which is not too shabby in my opinion. 2. I use the machine for more than chess, I don't have to deal with ms windows. Wm.
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