Athlon 64 vs. Apple G5 Systems: Not Even Close (chart)
Apple Power Macs did well on Photoshop, but the 64-bit AMD-based systems won handily on most tests.
Apple Power Mac G5 | Two 2-GHz PowerPC G5s | 128MB | Standard | 4 | 72 | 18 | 51 | 16 | 12 | 294 | 207 |
Apple Power Mac G5 | 1.8-GHz PowerPC G5 | 128MB | Standard | 5 | 84 | 27 | 76 | 19 | 14 | 147 | 141 |
Alienware Aurora | 2.2-GHz Athlon 64 FX-51 | 128MB | Standard | 4 | 37 | 21 | 60 | 8 | 335 | 257 | |
Alienware Aurora | 2.2-GHz Athlon 64 FX-51 | 256MB | RAID | 33 | 21 | 62 | |||||
Falcon Northwest Mach V | 2.2-GHz Athlon 64 FX-51 | 256MB | RAID | 33 | 20 | 60 | 337 | 246 | |||
Voodoo Fury | 2.2-GHz Athlon 64 FX-51 | 256MB | RAID | 33 | 21 | 62 | 336 | 248 | |||
Polywell Polystation Two | 2-GHz Opteron Model 246s | 128MB | Standard | 9 | 250 | 199 | |||||
ABS Awesome 5100 | 2-GHz Athlon 64 3200+ | 128MB | RAID | 4 | 40 | 23 | 68 | 6 | 7 | 261 | 224 |
Alienware Area 51 | 3.2-GHz Pentium 4 | 256MB | RAID | 4 | 46 | 24 | 69 | 7 | 7 | 307 | 254 |
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