Dell 2.53GHz Pentium 4 Runs Circles Around Fastest Mac G4
A windows user friend of mine sent me this link. I didn't believe the story, nor do I want to. What's your take:
<a href="http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/2002/07_jul/features/cw_macvspc2.htm" target="_blank">Dell 2.53GHz Pentium 4 Runs Circles Around Fastest Mac G4</a>
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<a href="http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/2002/07_jul/features/cw_macvspc2.htm" target="_blank">Dell 2.53GHz Pentium 4 Runs Circles Around Fastest Mac G4</a>
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I believe this was already discussed here when that article was new.
No, *I* said that Apple is doomed.
Big difference.
In raytracing with EI Universe, which has an excellent dual processor implementation and is more processor intense than memory intense, I think the story might be a bit different.
I'll know soon enough. I'm building a p4 2.53 to use as a renderbox. It's very cheap, and since I really won't be interfacing with it much, it's the perfect machine. I'll run some tests, but methinks Altivec + well designed FPU will beat a highly optimized but idiotically designed FPU in ray tracing.
Lastly, since After Effects doesn't use multiprocessing too well (claims Leonis) I don't think HT will affect performance numbers much at all, since the OS is what's going to utilize Hyper Threading. It's not done entirely in hardware. (or so claims intel)
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Lastly, since After Effects doesn't use multiprocessing too well (claims Leonis)</strong><hr></blockquote>
That's true. After Effects very rarely gets above 50-68% per CPU usage (using Adobe's own filters) on MP Macs.
Ironically. When rendering with filters that are third-parties (Digial Equilibium, KPT Final Effects etc) many of them DO get over 90% per CPU usage.
Something is really wrong on Adobe's side.
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