Author: gerold daniels
Date: 18:47:35 10/20/05
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On October 20, 2005 at 15:53:47, stuart taylor wrote: >On October 20, 2005 at 10:25:17, John Dillard 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. >> >>I was talking about the new dual core G5's. Neither Intel or AMD has anything >>out that is remotely close in power at the present time. > >Can they be used with regular PC software? Are they not toooo expensive? >S.Taylor Hello Stuart. Apple Xserve Dual 2.3 Ghz. Power pc G5 processor.$3,763-$4,100. I would go with amd. Gerold.
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