PowerMac G5 1.6GHz PS7Bench Results

Woah... While the G5 isn't the fastest in all tests (in fact, most of them) I'm quite impressed... seeing as this is only the 1.6 G5 vs 3+Ghz machines...

Can't wait to see Dual 2.0 results! :-)

Can't wait to see results with Panther - should be even better!!

Great results. A 2.0 Ghz machine would win about half of the tests (my rough estimation). A DUAL 2 Ghz PowerMac is going to be smokin'.

Originally posted by tizza
Can't wait to see results with Panther - should be even better!!

Amen!

And photoshop 8!

Very nice for a "slow" machine!! the 2 is going to be mad awsome!

This still doesn't say anything about the "strange" Xbench results. The test compares PCs to the new G5, which is not to say is not useful, it is very much, but doesn't draw a bottom online on G4 vs G5 performance.

Anyone with a MDD 2x1.42 care to run that test so we can have a COMPLETE set of results?

One thing i didn't like about the test is that it did start to use the disk at some periods. Once it does that, it really becomes an unfair test and does not show the true power of the processor.

You should allocate as much RAM as possible to Photoshop and not let it use disk cache. Otherwise, it will really slow down the results.. A 50GB file however with 300GB of RAM, it should really never use disk cache in my opinion... but.. oh well.

It does however show the speed in a basica real-life situation.. so it's not too bad.

Another thing to note, is although the G5 only wins a minority of the tests, if you actually look at how well each machine came, you would notice that the G5 scored SECOND out of the seven machines, with only the P4 3.06 HT beating it.

Well, considering this this the *low end* machine against the PC industry's *high end* machines, the 1.6 definitely holds its own and bests them in a few spots, so not bad. I can't wait to see a dual 2 GHz G5 running Panther in a rematch...then by Christmas/MWSF when they up the clock speeds, it will be even more amazing. Just imagine what the G5s will be able to do by this time next year.

I made a graph of the results, but I'm afraid it didn't turn out as I had hoped.

What it does show is that (at this scale) the G5 1.6 is right on the money.

It also shows is that a lot of these tests are now millisecond shootouts, and that all the modern computers are easily quick enough for these tasks.

Finally it shows that I need to upgrade :(

*edit: I'd like to see the results with over 100mb files.
They'd probably just get even better!