Hi,
I attended WWDC (conference at which Apple unveiled the G5
computer) and I ran bench (MATLAB's cross-platform benchmarking
function) on it using MATLAB 6.5 R13. The results are below.
The G5 numbers for bench were:
LU FFT ODE Sparse 2-D 3-D
0.3097 1.1282 0.4329 0.5004 0.9657 0.7893
For comparison, the Mathworks supplies the following benchmark
numbers on other machines.
LU FFT ODE Sparse 2-D
3-D
Intel Pentium3 700MHz Laptop 2.0933 2.3500 1.2020 1.8230 1.7290 2.5540
Windows 2000, ATI Mobility
Intel Pentium4 2.0GHz 0.8440 1.6410 0.5620 0.7970 0.9220 0.5940
Windows 2000, Matrox G450
AMD Athlon 600Mhz 1.6819 3.0545 1.9673 2.5462 2.8626 3.8693
Linux, Pentium 3 BLAS, Software OpenGL
AMD Athlon 1800+ Dual 0.6702 1.3188 0.6752 0.9850 0.8665 0.4710
Linux, Matrox G450
HP PA-8700 750MHz 0.5040 2.2458 0.7684 1.3686 1.3578 2.4139
HP-UX, Visualize FX10
Compaq Alpha 21264B 834Mhz 0.8588 0.9543 1.0236 1.2184 1.3656 1.0363
Tru64, PowerStorm 350, Software OpenGL
IBM Power3 450Mhz 0.5956 1.7016 1.1413 1.4862 2.0769 3.0919
AIX, GXT4000P
SGI R12000 400Mhz 1.4594 3.4102 2.7477 2.0578 5.3070 2.0957
IRIX64, V10 graphics
Sun UltraSPARC-II 750Mhz 1.0215 2.7104 1.5564 2.1607 1.8234 3.5861
Solaris, PGX64
Macintosh G4 1.0GHz Dual 0.9688 1.7966 0.7920 1.4270 1.8071 3.1606
OS X, Graphics uses X-windows, OroborOSX and Mesa, GeForce4 MX
I was told that the ATI graphics drivers on the G5 machine were in
an un-refined stage.
