New iMac 24" SR 2.4 vs PowerMac G5 Dual 2.5?

[Revlimit Punk]

I was wondering which one has more raw power under the hood when running universal apps:

iMac 24" SR 2.4Ghz or PowerMac G5 Dual 2.5Ghz?

Any first hand experience or benchmarks with similar configurations?

 

[autumn]

I was wondering which one has more raw power under the hood when running universal apps:

iMac 24" SR 2.4Ghz or PowerMac G5 Dual 2.5Ghz?

Any first hand experience or benchmarks with similar configurations?

iMac has a better speedmark 4.5 overall. But what type of apps do you usually run?

279 vs 270

Although G5 review was done in 11/05. The score might not be the same now.

 

[techlover828]

ya the advantage of the mac pro is that you can upgrade it like crazy, not the base model.

 

[devman]

an older iMac but it will give you some idea.

http://macspeedzone.com/html/hardware/machine/performance_in_the_raw/07/6_6.shtml

 

[jfpoole]

You can get Geekbench (my favorite benchmark ) results for the iMac Core 2 Duo @ 2.4GHz here, and Power Mac G5 @ 2.5GHz here. The Geekbench scores for both are:

iMac Core 2 Duo @ 2.4GHz: 3243
Power Mac G5 @ 2.5GHz: 2103

So in terms of raw processing power, it looks like the iMac is ahead (far ahead) of the Power Mac G5.

 

[Revlimit Punk]

Thank you all for the info!

Looks like I'm gonna sell my PowerMac and upgrade to a new iMac then

 

[dontwalkhand]

The new iMac will be faster than the PowerMac G5.