Compareing G3s to G4s

[Ecodisk]

How does a 500mhz G4 compare to a 1ghz G3 performance wise? When I was looking here I noticed they cost about the same.

 

[Eidorian]

You, WANT AltiVec. G4 all the way, unless you're running applications that don't support AltiVec.

 

[liketom]

How does a 500mhz G4 compare to a 1ghz G3 performance wise? When I was looking here I noticed they cost about the same.

all depends on what you want to do , if it's a dual G4 then you might have a better time in some Apps but V's a 1Ghz single G3 there is not that much to say

1ghz is faster -

 

[Ecodisk]

Ok I'm a complete noob....what is altivec?

 

[Eidorian]

Ok I'm a complete noob....what is altivec?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltiVec

http://developer.apple.com/hardware/ve/

 

[Ecodisk]

Is this a good cpu because I'm willing to get a sawtooth instead of a yosemite.

 

[liketom]

if i had a choice between g4 500mhz or g3 1ghz then i would have the g3


edity: this looks tasty OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.467-1.5GHz 2MB L3 Cache for PowerMac G4 AGP

 

[Morn]

In the vast majority of tasks altivec is not going to make up for 500mhz. Though, make note of the fact that the G3 had a very week FPU, and at 1ghz would properly perform like a 500mhz G4 for media tasks. But I doubt much slower. So the G3 is really a better deal, in some things it will be sigificantly faster because the G3 did have a strong ALU.