Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 09:23:32 09/19/03
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On September 19, 2003 at 00:19:06, Steven Edwards wrote: >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$4,500. So on a GHz per dollar rate, the two machines are almost >exactly the same which gives the Mac performance per dollar ratio a three to two >advantage over the Dell. dell is just expensive. 3.06GHZ Xeons are 500$ at new egg, which means a 2xXeon would run you about 2000$ if you built it yourself, assuming you didn't go all out on thousands of GB of SCSI disk ;) 2x Opteron is probably about 2K, and 2x Athlon MPs would probably be even cheaper - maybe 1300$. Of course, some people (the name Charles Worthington comes to mind ;) just want a computer that works delivered to their doorstep. I have nothing against macs; the only reason I've never bought one is that I feel they are too expensive. Of course, I don't mind building my machine from scratch <shrug> anthony
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