Author: Andreas Guettinger
Date: 15:52:44 10/19/05
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On October 19, 2005 at 17:25:05, Lance Perkins wrote: >On October 19, 2005 at 17:00:35, enrico carrisco wrote: > >>On October 19, 2005 at 14:25:50, John Dillard wrote: >> >>>The strongest 64 bit processor on the market is the dual core G5 from Apple. It >>>runs runs 21 double precision gigaflops per second and 76 in single precision >>>mode. Nothing from Intel or AMD even gets in the ballpark. >> >>Impressive but I doubt Mr. Taylor was asking in reference to "rendering" >>something. Perhaps within the Adobe stuff that was made for the Mac the numbers >>are very impressive -- but visit the link below for the real world (including >>computer chess, which just happens to be what this forum is about...) G5 gets >>raped. Period. >> >>http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436&p=5 >> >>-elc. > >Even Apple demonstrated that OSX runs faster after they ported it to the X86. >This has also been confirmed by companies who have started porting their apps to >the new MacIntel machines. Hmm, they have? Seems to have escaped me. >And btw, the Apple Dev Kit uses gcc. Now immagine even more speed improvements >when they start using Intel's compilers. That can be expected. But still, the pro line will not be updated until mid 2007 accoring to the road map, up until then Apple still counts on the G5. - Andy
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