64-bit Apple G5s trounced by Athlon 64s, Opterons

It's about time...

Published on October 16, 2003 By Dark-Star In Personal Computing

(INQUIRER) TESTS PUTTING an Athlon 64 FX-51, and a 2GHz dual Opteron up against a 3.2GHz Pentium 4 and two PowerMac G5 systems have AMD's 64-bit offerings mashing up the Apple and pulping the Pentium.
The Athlon 64 FX system outperforms the 64-bittish G5 systems in most of the benchmarks, including Premiere 6, Word, and Quake III. Apple-friendly Photoshop, still performs best on the platform, though, the dual G5 managing a 15 per cent performance lead over the Athlon 64 FX-51.

The dual Opteron system however, beats the dual G5 in other Photoshop tests.

PC World said systems with the FX-51 showed "pronounced improvements in some of our more CPU-intensive tests, particularly AutoCAD, where they were about 44 percent faster, on average, than the P4 unit".

The FX-51 PCs also "stood out on our Premiere tests, and posted top scores on the Photoshop and VideoWave tests. The P4-based PC had the best score in our Musicmatch test".

In PC World's game tests, the FX-51 PCs were "clear winners", posting noticeably higher scores.

Comments

Vic

on Oct 17, 2003

http://barefeats.com/g5c.html

Check out these benchmarks using Cinebench 2003.

KarmaGirl

on Oct 22, 2003

I think that it all depends on who is testing it. there have been so many benchmarks out that prove one is better than the other, and the results are never the same. I say: buy the computer that you want and don't worry about the rest!

Dark-Star

on Oct 22, 2003

Bingo.. it certainly matters only if you will USE those features. If you only want the fastest computer becouse it claims to be the best... well.. that's another story. Honestly, it all relative...

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