PS CS3 Beta Benchmarks- PowerPC vs. Intel

[Rocketman]

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My takeaway is that you simply get the SAME SPEED as a good old PMG5 by waiting for this upgrade.

If you are a Pro you have NO INCENTIVE to by a Xeon MacPro at all since a PMG5 is exactly as fast AND far lower price. And more fully debugged.

It seems the PMG5 has really long legs.

http://www.smarter.com/---se--qq-power+mac+g5.html

Rocketman

 

[JeffDM]

My takeaway is that you simply get the SAME SPEED as a good old PMG5 by waiting for this upgrade.

If you are a Pro you have NO INCENTIVE to by a Xeon MacPro at all since a PMG5 is exactly as fast AND far lower price. And more fully debugged.

You won't have to wait much longer, apparently Adobe will launch CS3 this month.

That said, if you can use an existing machine, then that's probably going to be serviceable for quite some time. If your uses needs the the fastest that's available, then pretty soon, I think the Mac Pro will be the machine to have. It's also a lot more flexible in terms of storage and is a lot quieter too.

 

[FireArse]

My takeaway is that you simply get the SAME SPEED as a good old PMG5 by waiting for this upgrade.

It seems the PMG5 has really long legs.

It does seem those PPC chips were state-of-the-art. I have a Mac Pro sat here infront of me. Part of me regrets selling the Dual G5 for it...

Still, if only H.264 was as well optimised on either PPC or Intel...I wonder how long it took to work through every line of that code. You can bet those engineers at Adobe know PPC & Intel optimisations better than IBM and Intel!