Author: Steven Edwards
Date: 21:19:06 09/18/03
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On September 19, 2003 at 00:03:40, Russell Reagan wrote: >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. >Any data on which compilers were used? I think it could change that 1% >significantly up or down when you consider gcc vs. the Intel compiler for the >Linux box. I have no idea about compilers for the Mac. It might be interesting >to see similar numbers when using the best compilers for each platform (MSVC for >Xeon and ??? for Mac?). You should read the whole report: http://www.veritest.com/clients/reports/apple/apple_performance.pdf By the way, I tried configuring a Dell Precision 650 (the dual 3.06 GHz Xeon version) with the same hardware as the Mac dual G5 and came up with a price of just over US$4,500. So on a GHz per dollar rate, the two machines are almost exactly the same which gives the Mac performance per dollar ratio a three to two advantage over the Dell.
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