Rép : Developers love new G5 performance ?
Rép : Developers love new G5 performance ?
- Subject: Rép : Developers love new G5 performance ?
- From: p3consulting <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 16:12:53 +0200
Apple tested against the Xeon 3.06GHz in a dual CPU configuration,
they used Dell Precision 650 systems.
PPC 970 would hold its own against the Itanium. Against the Itanium 2
it would be about even in integer performance and lag in floating
point. The Itanium 2 isn't very friendly in backwards support while
the PPC 970 is very friendly.
Also most Itanium workstations start at around 4k and have a fraction
of the features found in the new PowerMac G5, I bet an equivalent
system (in feature set) to the low end PowerMac G5 would easily run
you 4.5k or more.
Regarding prices, configuring a Dell 650 bi-Xeon 3Ghz on Dell (Europe)
web site to have more or less same features as the Powermac G5 bi-2Ghz,
gives us the following results:
Dell Precision 650
2x Xeon 3.06 Ghz with Hyper-Threading option
ATI Fire 128 Mb
1 Gb Ram (266Mhz)
120 Gb HD ATA-100
DVD-4/CD-RW
W2000 XP Pro
3 years Business support
---------------------------------------------> 4429 Euros excl. VAT
Apple G5
2x 2Ghz PPC970
ATI 9800 Pro 128 Mb
1 Gb Ram (400 Mhz)
160 Gb HD Serial ATA
DVD-4/CD-RW
AppleCare
---------------------------------------------> 3658 Euros excl. VAT
so +/- 21% price advantage in favor of Apple G5.
In SPEC per Euro this gives us:
Apple Dell
SPECint_base2000 47 38 ----> +24% advantage to the G5
SPECfp_rate_base2000 43 25 ----> +72% advantage to the G5
And as you see Dell configuration is not strictly equals to Apple's one
:HD is smaller , no optical connector for sound, no FW800 (?), etc.
The real world question now is: does this will be enough to increase
Apple's market share in short to medium time ?
Does anybody knows if it will technically possible to get low cost G4
mother boards based on the new design or a design derived from the new
one ? (for low cost entry Macs, @+/- 1,000 Euros or USD, excl. VAT) ?
Pascal Pochet
P3 Consulting
http://www.p3-consulting.net
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