Bare Feats has pitted a Quad Xeon 3.0GHz Mac Pro vs. a Quad G5 2.5GHz Power Mac in a benchmark shootout.
“The Mac Pro ships with 1GB of memory. We ordered with no memory options to avoid the two week wait for the added memory. But, thanks to Other World Computing, two days after receiving the Mac Pro we had 2GB more to add for a total of 3GB. The only other difference in configuration between the Mac Pro and the G5 Power Mac was that the Mac Pro had the GeForce 7300 GT while the Quad-Core G5 had the GeForce 7800 GT. However, our tests were CPU intensive and were not affected by the GPU difference. (When the Radeon X1900 XT arrives, we plan to do some GPU tests like Motion, iMaginator, Quake 4, Doom 3, etc.),” rob-ART morgan reports for Bare Feats.
See the benchmark results here.
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Apple Mac Pro dissection photos – August 16, 2006
Ars Technica reviews Apple Mac Pro Quad Xeon 64-bit workstation – August 11, 2006
Apple Mac Pro Quad-core Xeon easily beats Power Mac G5 Quad – August 11, 2006
OWC offers Apple Mac Pro memory upgrades; rebate trade-in of Apple factory memory – August 11, 2006
Benchmark duel: Apple Mac Pro vs. Power Mac G5 – August 10, 2006
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Dave, as Trevor explained is was 3 gigs not 3 sticks.
512mb + 512mb = 1 gig pair
1gig + 1gig = 2 gig pair
again… 4 dimms at a time…
Quote Apple:
“To take full advantage of the 256-bit wide memory architecture, four or more FB-DIMMs should be installed in Mac Pro.”
(doing best Ampar impersonation)
ok… killBill… so I’m lost here… who is the moron. Dave or Trevor?
Not taking sides… but if you really want to test the metal you’d be wise to run with the hottest configs… especially when you try to compare the current “top of the line” with the previous top gun.
AnandTech says it well enough:
For the most part, there’s no benefit to having all four channels populated, but in some rare cases the performance boost can be tremendous. Given that lmbench showed us an increase in memory write speed when going from dual to quad channels, we can assume that the scenarios where we do see a large performance gain are write bandwidth bound.
If you’re going to upgrade the memory in your Mac Pro anyways, you might as well stick to four FB-DIMMs as it will give you the best possible combination of latency and bandwidth (as good as you can get with FB-DIMMs that is).
Ampar…
Beef Jerky is expensive because of the little known phenomenon called “Oral Happiness Massaged Your Genes Amazingly While Dallas Texas Heart Institute Sceintifically Theorized Asymetrical Sequencing That Easily Simulates Getting Really Ecstatic About Taste”
or as you’ve probably heard it mentioned many times, the
OHMYGAWDTHISTASTESGREAT
Thank you, I’ll be here all week. Please Don’t forget to tip your waitress.
MDN word is Audience…. you’re getting just a little too scary MDN… knock it off.
Wow, I hope these crack-head posts are all by the same freak. It would be pretty sad if there was more than one nutjob of that caliber.
Jim: LOL! Nice!
Nick: You’re the only human here. The other threads were generated by Experimental AI Test Expectation Nodes (EATEN).
You want to help show the world the power of the Mac? Install and run a grid computing project on your computer. Especially the quad core Macs – those have a massive amount of computational power. Here is a link to one such grid computing project:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/viewJoinNow.do
The project organizers keep all sorts of statistics on which platforms is contributing the most and how fast they are on average. Show them the speed of the Macs, both PPC and Intel…
MDN word: “Quality,” as in Apple makes quality computers….