More Quad PowerMac G5 Benchmarks

[MacRumors]

As the Quad PowerMac G5's start to arrive, more benchmarks are emerging.

Barefeats posts a collection of benchmarks from After Effects, Cinebench G5, Photoshop CS2, Xbench, and UT2004 comparing the Dual Dual-Core ("Quad") G5 2.5GHz PowerMac to the previous Dual 2.5GHz G5 PowerMac.

Meanwhile, Macsonly also provides the same comparison with some similar benchmarks but also some "Real World" tests.

 

[ddub]

Looks good...

These benchmarks show us a lot more than those Xbench results from a couple days ago. The new Quad looks like it will live up to the hype!

 

[AoWolf]

This thing seems pretty fast. It will be interesting to see what the intel powermacs will bring and possibly later revs of there duel core machines.

 

[SPUY767]

Most of the graphics bench's are worthless b/c the 2.5 Dual has the 6800/256 upgrade. A card which, needless to say, trounces the 6600. At least the floating point ops are showing up at roughly 2x speed.

 

[ksz]

It's interesting that OpenGL on the Quad with an nVidia 6600 was about equal to the 2.5 Dual with an nVidia 6800 Ultra. In fact, it beat the Dual 2.5 on User Interface graphics and Quartz Extreme.

http://www.macsonly.com/index.html#_141

 

[EricNau]

Looks like it's pretty fast...I wish I had one.

 

[dberg]

not that it matters really b/c both systems had 3 sticks of 512, but when you dont pair the memory on the G5, doesnt this disable the memory interleaving capability of the G5 and severely slow down the machine ?

 

[iGary]

I'd like to see some benchmarks against the 2.7, obviously.

 

[Mr. Anderson]

Looks like it's pretty fast...I wish I had one.

As I sit here waiting for my machine to finish rendering an image, I'm thinking the same thing.

I'm waiting for the 7800GT, though - so I probably won't have one until January....

Bleh,

D

 

[ACW]

Results

At least these new results look real. Apple deny ever shipping any Quds in the UK so I think that guy in wales was a fake.

 

[ACW]

not that it matters really b/c both systems had 3 sticks of 512, but when you dont pair the memory on the G5, doesnt this disable the memory interleaving capability of the G5 and severely slow down the machine ?

The G5's come with 2 X 256MB chips so this machine was still paired.

 

[lopresmb]

yeah, its fast, but I wish the price were lower (or at least stick more RAM, HD, or something for the same).

Question, would a machine that had 3 cores be like (that is 1 dual core, and one single)? Is that even possible?

 

[bigandy]

i want one anyway

 

[Will Cheyney]

I'd like to see some benchmarks against the 2.7, obviously.

Me too!

 

[yoda13]

Yeah, I'd like to have one too. Looks like the hype was fairly justified on this one.

 

[50548]

And there are still people who think PCs are faster...

The Quad just trounces any PC out there...period.

 

[ipacmm]

Looks good, 3 more days until my Quad comes in.

 

[adamfilip]

looks like you already have enough macs.. why one more?

 

[lightsout]

The Quad just trounces any PC out there...period.

If you gave me the choice between a dual dual-core Opteron system, I'd take that over a dual dual-core G5 system. The Athlon64/Opteron are easily the best low-end (not POWER5/Itanium) processor available.

 

[gugy]

As I sit here waiting for my machine to finish rendering an image, I'm thinking the same thing.

I'm waiting for the 7800GT, though - so I probably won't have one until January....

Bleh,

D

Yeah, I am in the same situation. but mine is supposedly coming at Xmass.
I am glad I ordered the Quad. It seems very fast and will be a great computer to go thought the Intel transition.
I hope Apple will give us a copy of Ilife '06 because of the huge wait we are experiencing.

 

[plinden]

If you gave me the choice between a dual dual-core Opteron system, I'd take that over a dual dual-core G5 system. The Athlon64/Opteron are easily the best low-end (not POWER5/Itanium) processor available.

Athlon X2 (that's what I think you meant, rather than Athlon64) maybe, but are you sure about the Opteron? I can't find any dual dual-core Opteron system @ 2GHz or more for less than $7000.

 

[mac n cheese]

512MB memory standard?!?

Am I the only one that is totally baffled and confused that the extreme high end Quad 2.5 ships with 512MB RAM? Just seems silly that it doesn't ship with at LEAST 2 512 sticks.

 

[Mr. Anderson]

I hope Apple will give us a copy of Ilife '06 because of the huge wait we are experiencing.

I wouldn't hold your breath....

I'm going to pick one up when they're actually shipping, I haven't ordered mine yet....

D

 

[iGary]

I wouldn't hold your breath....

I'm going to pick one up when they're actually shipping, I haven't ordered mine yet....

D

Sell off your son and get me one too, while you're at it.

 

[Dont Hurt Me]

Iam surprised that a single AMD 3500 running at 2.2 ghz can still whoop those G5 Powermacs in gaming, I realize that power is for Work but when it comes to the consumer/gamer its like having a Turbo V8 without a transmission. My UT2K4 scores kills those powermacs as does this athlon on every game i have looked at. What good is all that power if it cant be used? No wonder they are going to Intel. The Athlon's 64 are still the chip to beat as far as the Consumer go's. For the movie guy/photoguy these machines may offer a lot but for the Consumer they offer very little in my view.