The scientific benchmark Bioinformatics Benchmark System (BBS version 3) completes a comparison of genomic sequences up to 39 percent faster on the Power Mac G5 Quad when compared with the Dual Processor 2.7 GHz Power Mac G5.LightWave 3D renders animation up to 59 percent faster on the Power Mac G5 Quad when compared with the Dual Processor 2.7 GHz Power Mac G5 and.Adobe After Effects renders video effects up to 69 percent faster on the new Power Mac G5 Quad when compared with the Dual Processor 2.7 GHz Power Mac G5.
Adobe Photoshop runs a series of 45 commonly used filters and actions 43 percent faster on the new Power Mac G5 Quad when compared with the Dual Processor 2.7 GHz Power Mac G5 The specifications for the last model Dual-Core G5 confirms: Dual 2.0/2.3 - 450W Power Supply Quad 2.5 - 550W Power Supply Would 450W or 600W Power Supply units from previous G5 models work in the Late 2005 model Thanks for any advice/suggestions you can provide.Final Cut Pro® 5 encodes SD video content up to 60 percent faster on the new Power Mac G5 Quad when compared with the Dual Processor 2.7 GHz Power Mac G5.of course, it could all be simply a Tiger/Leopard issue, given the OS differences.With two 2.5 GHz dual-core processors, each with 1MB of L2 cache, the Power Mac G5 Quad delivers breakthrough performance on applications used extensively by creative professionals and scientists. This is a dual-core 2.0GHz processor for the PowerMac G5 (Late 2005) Apple Part : 661-3727 Manufacturer Part : 630-7687 Compatible With: See Compatibility List See Compatibility List Suggested Items for Installation: N/A Condition: Used Used parts are in Grade A- to A condition unless otherwise specified. I understand the reasons - I simply regret that the PPC line could not have carried on. In some ways, it is a shame that Apple had to move on to the Intel chips. It all lacks the amazing fluid smoothness of the G5/Tiger that so impressed me when I first looked at buying one (and still does impress me!).Īll of this leaves me thinking that Apple's older G5 architecture was a really good thing. On my MBP/Leopard, the icons of the Dock noticeably "jerk" from one size to another as they increase and decrease. On my G5/Tiger, the icons expand and contract with a fluid grace as I run the mouse pointer along the Dock. What is worse, I find the MBP's performance in some things to be far more "jerky" than the G5's. Clearly there are significant architecture differences between these machines, but everything seems a little slower on the MBP.
Both are at the most current releases of their respective OS. My G5 runs Tiger while my MBP runs Leopard. The Power Macintosh G5 Dual Core (2.3) is powered by a single 'dual core' 2.3 GHz PowerPC 970MP (G5) processor with dual optimized AltiVec 'Velocity Engine' vector processing units (one per core), four double-precision FPUs (two per core), 1 MB of on-chip level 2 cache on each core, and a 1.15 GHz frontside system bus. Of course, there is also the OS difference. This has not been the case, at least in all things. The Apple Power Mac G5 device is built with a 32k/64k level 1 cache and 512k level 2 on-chip cache.
Its graphics are supported by an ATI Radeon 9600 (AGP 8X Pro) video card with 128 MB of DDR SDRAM. POWERMAC CPU 2.3GHz Dual PowerPC G5 processor 1.15GHz frontside bus 512k L2 cache 2.5 Ghz RAM (400MHz DDR2 PC3200U DDR SDRAM Memory) 300GB Serial ATA hard drive 16x SuperDrive. 661-3587 2.3GHz Dual Processor - PowerMac G5 Early 2005 A1049 661-3587 2.3GHz Dual Processor - PowerMac G5 Early 2005 A1048 The store will not work correctly in the case when cookies are disabled. Given that as a general rule, a G5 GHz and a C2D GHz are roughly the same, and given the nearly insignificant GHz rating differential, I rather expected the MBP to either mildly outperform the older G5 or at least run at par with it. The Apple Power Mac G5 has MacOS X 10.4 (8A428) pre-installed on it and runs on a dual 2.3 GHz PowerPC 970fx (G5) processor. Just a quick observation I have made, now that I have both an older PowerMac G5, with a dual 2.3 GHz PPC processor, and a new MBP with a Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz Intel processor.