Actual performance specs of the new PPC 970 (G5)

[Park Seward]

From:
http://www.macbidouille.com/niouzcon...ate=2003-05-05

The first benchmarks were done during March 2003 on a preview model running at 1.4 GHz. OS was an alpha version 7B5 and 7B8 of Panther, optimised for 64 bits processor, but the applications tested were only using 32 bits.

Photoshop : PPC 970 mono 1.4 is 87% faster than a Dual 1.42 GHz
Final Cut Pro : PPC 970 mono 1.4 is 112% faster than a Dual 1.42 GHz
Alias|Wavefront Maya Render : PPC 970 mono 1.4 is 254% faster than a Dual 1.42 GHz

The Altivec shows a 80% increase of performances with the 970. This is not due to the chip itself, but to the high speed access between processor and central memory. The Mach 64 motherboard is highly optimised for the use of DDR-SDRAM.
- There is no performance loss when the PPC 970 executes some 32 bits apps.
- The motherboard optimization almost allows dual processors to reach double performance. In fact it's about 90% efficiency gained with the second processor, compared to 50% for the G4.

[PMoshay]

le' Sick!
i guess that they will have to re-code apps a bit to take advantage of the 64bit's. I wonder if that is a huge task?
The new question is.........
Is Digi working on it yet?
Lets hope so......

[vonbleak101]

Wow! Thats pretty good performance. Any word on the price yet? [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]