The "All New" G4 vs P4 vs Athlon test
I'm disapointed that they removed all the benchmarks from the other systems on the older page but the new one really shows why Apple only test against the Pentium 4 in the benchmark tests.
The Athlon systems totally destroy the G4 in every test!
The Pentium 4 with it's 1GHz clock speed advantage manages to be 20% slower to 26% faster in the single CPU tests.
I keep telling myself that the protools benchmarks are all that matter when a 1.6Ghz P4 with RDRAM only manages to beat a beige G3 with a 466Mhz G3 upgrade by 44% but the 2D and 3D graphics results on barefeats really make me think I'd be better off getting a CPU upgrade for my current mac and "making do" till Apple being out something that really deserves to have the word "Power" next to the word "Mac"
I'm disapointed that they removed all the benchmarks from the other systems on the older page but the new one really shows why Apple only test against the Pentium 4 in the benchmark tests.
The Athlon systems totally destroy the G4 in every test!
The Pentium 4 with it's 1GHz clock speed advantage manages to be 20% slower to 26% faster in the single CPU tests.
I keep telling myself that the protools benchmarks are all that matter when a 1.6Ghz P4 with RDRAM only manages to beat a beige G3 with a 466Mhz G3 upgrade by 44% but the 2D and 3D graphics results on barefeats really make me think I'd be better off getting a CPU upgrade for my current mac and "making do" till Apple being out something that really deserves to have the word "Power" next to the word "Mac"