Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 21:00:22 09/18/03
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On September 18, 2003 at 22:39:34, Steven Edwards wrote: >The gang over at http://www.veritest.com was contracted by Apple to run the SPEC >benchmarks on the new PowerMac dual 2.0 GHz PowerPC G5. For comparison >purposes, a Dell dual 3.06 GHz Xeon was also used in the testing. The Mac was >running Mac OS X 10.2.7 while the Dell ran Red Hat Linux 9.0. > >The test of interest here is SPEC_base_int as it includes Crafty as a subtest >for measuring overall integer performance. While the Mac had the overall higher >SPEC_base_int score, the Dell beat the Mac on the Crafty subtest. > >By one percent. It seems these 'tests' were the much-ridiculed ones that had little to do with reality. The given performance of Xeon in the G5 comparison was far below that of the official SPEC submission for a similarly configured Xeon machine.
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