1Ghz G4 vs 2.6 P4 - My own tests...
Just cos I am bored, and because I can. I think these are quite good systems to destroy the MHz myth, as they have the same RAM speed, although the PC does have a slightly lower FSB.
This, however, is not ment as a highly technical test - I am just gonna but some of the EVERY DAY software that I use to the test.
I will edit this post as I think of more tests to do...
Mac System: 1Ghz G4, 133FSB, 1Gb DDR266 RAM, OSX 10.2.6
Wintel System: 2.6 P4, 112FSB, 512Mb DDR266 RAM, Win2k SP3
Test 1 - MYSQL 4.0.13
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The Test: Select benchmark(5000000, password("benchmarking"));
Mac Time: 7.14 Secs
Wintel Time: 7.66 Secs
This, however, is not ment as a highly technical test - I am just gonna but some of the EVERY DAY software that I use to the test.
I will edit this post as I think of more tests to do...
Mac System: 1Ghz G4, 133FSB, 1Gb DDR266 RAM, OSX 10.2.6
Wintel System: 2.6 P4, 112FSB, 512Mb DDR266 RAM, Win2k SP3
Test 1 - MYSQL 4.0.13
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The Test: Select benchmark(5000000, password("benchmarking"));
Mac Time: 7.14 Secs
Wintel Time: 7.66 Secs
Comments
Originally posted by madmax559
you also have 1/2 the ram on the win2k box
Yes, but the PC wasnt running:- iTunes(not actually playing songs), iCal, Preview, Sherlock, Address book, bbedit, MSN, iChat, Safari, Mail, Transmit and sickies.
Also, Yeah the P4 is quad pumped, but its not REALLY getting info from the main memory at 400+Mhz... That would be a bloody mirracle since the RAM is only 266Mhz.
I am not sure, but I figure the quad figure is only for INSIDE the chip, ie it can fetch data from the cache 4 times each clock cycle. For this reason, in everyday examples, I always use the mobo FSB, and the memory speed - Not the quad puped figures.
Originally posted by Gargoyle
Yes, but the PC wasnt running:- iTunes(not actually playing songs), iCal, Preview, Sherlock, Address book, bbedit, MSN, iChat, Safari, Mail, Transmit and sickies.
All of which would take up, what? 25MB RAM, max?
So no 970 for me jsut yet.
Yes, but the PC wasnt running:- iTunes(not actually playing songs), iCal, Preview, Sherlock, Address book, bbedit, MSN, iChat, Safari, Mail, Transmit and sickies.
All of which would take up, what? 25MB RAM, max?
Yeah but on a pc all of these running would crash the system.
We were going to benchmark a couple of web sites but got stuck on rock103, icq and madblast.
We ended up saying that the mac was better but only cos I had installed the latest real and macromedia updates on the mac and that the pc couldn't play a couple of file.
Dobby.