Author: Matthew White
Date: 17:13:43 11/21/03
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On November 21, 2003 at 19:33:33, Andreas Guettinger wrote: >With the availability of the Dual 1.8 Ghz G5 systems, Apple updated _their_ >benchmark page: > >http://www.apple.com/powermac/performance/ > >They now also compare with a Dell Precision 650 Dual 3.2 Ghz Xeon and an >Alienware Aurora 2.2Ghz AMD Athlon 64 FX-51. Naturally (for an Apple site), both >of these systems get competely toasted by the G5. i.e. HMMER (biological >software using hidden markoff model matrices) outperforms the Athlon64 by 134%. > >Ouch :-) > >Andy >(Now I will get bashed) I've been a fan of Apple products for many years, I'm not ashamed to admit. This set of benchmarks, though, should probably be viewed as little more than marketing hype (which it is). I have a few reasons for this. First of all, I'm skeptical of any benchmark comparison that gives percentages in lieu of hard data. Second of all, the first two benchmarks (those people are most likely to read, as most of us have a tendency to glaze over when too many graphs are presented) don't include a performance measurement of the same Intel platform as the rest of the benchmarks. This is definitely misleading, IMO. Just my 2 cents. Matt
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