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MacAddict's Power Mac G5 Tests

Yeah...

So remember if you max out your Ram and your video card... you get an absurd preformance boost.

😛
 
Mmm...RAM...all that RAM really stands for is your Really Awesome Mac quotiant. The higher your RAM, the more awesome your Mac becomes. My PowerBook is not so awesome, unfortunately, it only has 192 out of 384 possible awesomeness points. This makes me sad, but this is the way of things.
 
Originally posted by Powerbook G5
Mmm...RAM...all that RAM really stands for is your Really Awesome Mac quotiant. The higher your RAM, the more awesome your Mac becomes. My PowerBook is not so awesome, unfortunately, it only have 192 out of 384 possible awesomeness points. This makes me sad, but this is the way of things.
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don't feel sad. my emachines PC has only 256mb of ram and my 9 year old thinkpad is maxed our at 24mb ram.
 
My dad had an eMachines at work one time. That really made me sad. It reminded me of a splitting headache, hitting your thumb with a hammer accidentally, and tripping over the garden hose causing you to scrape both knees and elbows all rolled up into one singular painful force.
 
So to complete the picture...

It would be great if we could see what the times are for the other machines when they're not crippled with only 512MB of RAM...

Then we'll know how much faster the G5 really will be for Photoshop users who have always known that RAM is important.
 
Re: So to complete the picture...

Originally posted by macpoweruser
....when they're not crippled with only 512MB of RAM...
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"crippled with only 512 MB RAM".... wow, times have changed 😀

BTW, I agree entirely.
 
I wish they would have installed the ram and the updated video card in the 1.8 and see what it would do. I was pretty impressed with how the 1.8 did stock against the dual 2.0. But, if I had the extra cash, I would still purchase the dual 2.0.
 
Ballpark figure for a Dual 800 Quicksilver

I know it's not the same file that the MacAddict people used, so take these numbers only casually, but I tried some of the tasks on a 115 MB Photoshop file with my Dual 800 G4 with 1.5 GB of RAM. I just wanted to get a ballpark idea of how fast/slow my machine is.

Rotate 90 degrees: about 3.5 seconds
Convert RGB to CMYK: about 17 seconds
Gauss 1 pixel: 5 secs
Gaussian blur 25 pixels: 22.5 secs

So for the first three, it seems like the G5 is about twice as fast, but the Gaussian blur for 25 pixels was 4-5 times faster on the G5.
 
Just for some more reference:

Gateway 930Mhz, 128MB RAM, no clue what video card because I don't know how to find out.


Rotate 90 degrees - 90 seconds
RGB to CYMK - 62 seconds
Guassian Blur 1 pixel - 69 seconds
Gaussian Blur 25 pixels - 102 seconds
 
Originally posted by stoid
Just for some more reference:

Gateway 930Mhz, 128MB RAM, no clue what video card because I don't know how to find out.


Rotate 90 degrees - 90 seconds
RGB to CYMK - 62 seconds
Guassian Blur 1 pixel - 69 seconds
Gaussian Blur 25 pixels - 102 seconds
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Yes, wow thats terrible, lol. Get rid of that peice 😛

By the way, it probably has an integraded card.

If you are running XP, you can see by:
Right clicking on your desktop
Click properties
Then the settings tab
Click advanced
Then the adapter tab
 
Sweet...glad I ordered an extra 1gb of memory for mine. Now if only they'd SHIP the damned thing.
 
please dont hurt me but when isnt ram a performance boost??If you dont have to access your harddrive and have it all sitting in memory then the cpu is able to allways be working on something,G5,G4,G3-more memory is allways a good thing.
 
Originally posted by Dont Hurt Me
please dont hurt me but when isnt ram a performance boost??If you dont have to access your harddrive and have it all sitting in memory then the cpu is able to allways be working on something,G5,G4,G3-more memory is allways a good thing.
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I think the big thing is that with the new bus and whatnot, the speed boost from extra RAM is gonna be a lot more extreme than before. I saw a big boost going from 256 to 1Gig, but not that much going from 1 Gig to 2 Gig. I think with th G5s, there's gonna be just as big a jump, going from Gig to Gig....
 
Originally posted by Powerbook G5
My dad had an eMachines at work one time. That really made me sad. It reminded me of a splitting headache, hitting your thumb with a hammer accidentally, and tripping over the garden hose causing you to scrape both knees and elbows all rolled up into one singular painful force.
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wow.

i haven't had a bit of grief with mine. it doesn't crash and it offers excellent bang-for-the-buck. i'm happy with it. i'm still gonna work my way towards an imac though. or a G5 if i'm lucky. 😀
 
I was just about to get a Dell when they delayed my dualie shipment but Dell couldn't offer anything close to the value.
 
Originally posted by Independence
wow.

i haven't had a bit of grief with mine. it doesn't crash and it offers excellent bang-for-the-buck. i'm happy with it. i'm still gonna work my way towards an imac though. or a G5 if i'm lucky. 😀
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It was an older eMachines and it seriously was a cheap piece of crap. I've noticed that overall quality has actually improved on many PCs since the years I used to be a PC user. But yeah...it was an AMD K...6 I think? with 3D Now when it was the hottest new technology. I think it had 32 megs RAM an running Win 95 I believe. It seriously just could bearly just run Windows by itself, but when you tried running something on top of that, it just slowly started to die for the next hour or two until it became unstable. I think it was probably some sort of memory leak, because it'd just work towards a full system-wide slowdown until it just died everytime you used it. I haven't used any of the new eMachines, but they do look like they have a bit more quality when I pass by them at Circuit City.
 
Originally posted by Independence
don't feel sad. my emachines PC has only 256mb of ram and my 9 year old thinkpad is maxed our at 24mb ram.
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Don't feel bad!

HA!

My Calculator HAS MORE MEMORY THEN THE LAPTOP MY SCHOOL GAVE ME!

😱

It... Runs... PALM-OS!!!!

😕
 
Originally posted by Keith Purfield
If 2GB of RAM took 2 seconds to rotate 90 degrees, I don't think 8GB of RAM will take any seconds.
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Thats probably not the case, the file probably uses anywhere from 512 to 2GBs or RAM, so 512 wouldn't be enough for the file, but 2Gbs would be more than enough.

I would like to see some tests of all memory configurations in 512 meg intervals, 🙂
 
I have to make one more comment since iam a subscriber to macaddict, they are getting away from using any gaming frame rates and that simply sucks! Come on Rik! how about a Ut2003 or Nascar 2003 or RTCW but to keep feeding us those darn blurs,rotation, photoshop and no gaming rates can mean little to nothing to a lot of people. We want to know if doom3 will be faster on g5 mac then when the wind blows machines.
 
Don't Hurt Me: MacAddict did that for many reasons.

Mac's, while improving in games, are still much stronger in their Photoshop performance--hence their use at keynotes and in this case, showing the performance difference between the G4 and G5.

With PC's, photoshop optimizations are not as emphasized (I don't think AMD has specific optimizations). PC's i find are STILL the better gaming platform at-the-moment.
 
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