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xlr8yourmac.com posted some user submitted benchmarks comparing a short After Effects benchmarking test on the new G5:


    Here are my results for this test on the three computers I have available to me:

    1 x 1.0 GHz G4 PowerBook 17" - ~30 minutes (3 min/frame)

    2 x 2.66 GHz Pentium Xeon from Boxx - 11 min, 39 sec (1.2 min/frame)

    2 x 2.0 GHz PowerMac G5 - 6 min, 1 sec (0.6 min/frame)

Remember, this is on pre-production machines with non G5-"optimized" code.

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