Author: Will Singleton
Date: 21:15:02 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. > >Which is not much considering the Xeon dual has a 50% higher clock rate. I >don't know offhand how much a loaded Dell dual Xeon costs, but the dual G5 model >tested can be had for US$3,000 (or less, if you can got a student / instructor / >developer discount). About the same price. I think there may have been some question regarding the objectivity of these tests, but not sure on that. I don't believe the clock speed will ramp up that quickly, what with the heat issues and all. Happy to be wrong, though. Will
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