Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 10:17:20 01/28/02
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On January 28, 2002 at 13:06:28, Roy Eassa wrote: >On January 28, 2002 at 12:59:55, Daniel Clausen wrote: > >>Hi >> >>On January 28, 2002 at 11:55:01, Roy Eassa wrote: >> >>>On January 28, 2002 at 11:44:00, Will Singleton wrote: >>> >>>>The new Mac G4's came out today, 933mhz and 1ghz versions. ... >>> >>> >>>There's a dual 1 GHz version too. Given that the G4 often tests out as twice as >>>fast per MHz than Intel/AMD chips, it should be FAST! >> >>In case of certain Photoshop filters, yes. But not in general. In general I'd >>say a G3 roughly equals a P3 with +150Mhz, in case of a G4 maybe a P3 with >>+250Mhz. >> > > >Fair enough (and much more polite than some). > >In that case, the equivalent of a dual-1.25 GHz P3 system would still be pretty >fast, especially for Mac users who are accustomed to lower MHz's in recent >years. And even Hiarcs 7.0 (for which there IS a Mac version) running on that >system would be very strong IMO. Hiarcs ran at a 1.78Ghz Athlon XP at the cct4, how is a 933Mhz G4 *ever* going to get close to that? More likely the Athlon XP and the G4 are 1 to 1 when talking about Mhz. An XP is over 20% faster than a P3 for me at the same Mhz. The huge branch misprediction penalty which the G4 might have (they didn't want to give me info on how much penalty it gets) is going to be P4 a look like and removes all the fun for chessprograms. Photoshop and such rendering programs can make use of the velocity engine in the G4, which is of no use for computerchess, but a gift from heaven for graphical calculations and even more for PR department. > >>>If Hiarcs 8 comes out for Mac OS (and/or Mac OS X), might it be the strongest >>>for any home computer? >> >>Since this is more than unlikely (IMO, YMMV), I won't speculate about that. :) >> >>Sargon
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