DP G4 vs. SP G5 in the Thunderdome!

[livingfortoday]

I'm on a posting spree tonight...

So, I want to gloat to my dad about my new Cube upgrade, but I'm not sure if I can yet. I'm not sure if my Cube is now faster than his G5... so I want some opinions. I'm gonna list the two setups, and you can tell me which you think is faster. I'm just not sure 'cause I know the G5 is a faster processor overall, plus it's got a much faster Bus speed than the Cube. But the Cube is a dual-processor machine now, versus his single G5!

Powermac G5
SP1.6 Ghz G5
800Mhz Bus
1 GB PC2700 RAM
Radeon 9600 64MB

Cube!
DP1.5Ghz G4
100Mhz Bus
1 GB PC100 RAM
GeForce FX 5200 128MB

So! Head to head! Toe to toe! Who wins!?

Two Macs enter! One Mac leave! Two Macs enter! One Mac leave!

 

[eva01]

in things that only use 1 processor his is faster, in things that use two processors yours is

except that his bus is 8 times better than yours which makes his that much better.

also your slow RAM doesn't help

 

[iEdd]

Sorry, but his is much faster, as yours only beats his on one number, aswell as the better graphics...

 

[andy89]

Isn't there a Dual 1.8 upgrade for the cube? - Should of got that
Does his G5 have a superdrive? - if not you gotta get one

1 question - is your cube fast enough to play games like doom 3 and halo?

Coz I wanna get a 'cube and upgrade it.

 

[livingfortoday]

Isn't there a Dual 1.8 upgrade for the cube? - Should of got that
Does his G5 have a superdrive? - if not you gotta get one

1 question - is your cube fast enough to play games like doom 3 and halo?

Coz I wanna get a 'cube and upgrade it.

The fastest upgrade so far is a dual-1.7Ghz for the Cube, but I think Gigadesigns is making a dual 1.8. And the Cube can only take AGP 2x video cards, so it's really limited in what it can do in that sense. So no, my Cube will probably never play Doom 3.

However if you go to cubeowner.com, you'll see some people have somehow managed to get 10k Raptor drives in their Cubes, as well as Radeon 9800's. So, maybe it IS possible, it's just pretty impossible for my Cube.

 

[stoid]

In raw CPU power, you've got him whipped hands down. The G4 delivers more performance per clock cycle than the G5, so a single G4 1.5 would do well against a single 1.6 G5. However, the cube is far more limited when it comes to bus speeds, RAM speed, and many many other internal factors, so I don't think that you'd come out ahead in too many tests.