Architosh: VectorWorks CAD screams on G5
Architosh interviews Sean Flaherty, CTO of Nemetschek N. A, on the performance of the G5 platform [attr: MacSurfer]. It's good reading. The salient point to remember while staring slack-jawed at all the pretty graphs is this caveat by Mr. Flaherty:
That said, it looks like the current G5 has erased any performance deficit that the Mac had endured, at least for this application.
Quote:
Individual users need to assess the performance increase based on how they use it; just adding up our performance indices is not an accurate measure of the performance gain to a customer. We try to measure some of the more critical speed areas in VectorWorks, but there are many we don't measure and only the user can weigh them based on their value. It is also important to note that if you take any session of use for an application like VectorWorks, that nearly 90 percent of the total time measured is spent waiting for user input.
Individual users need to assess the performance increase based on how they use it; just adding up our performance indices is not an accurate measure of the performance gain to a customer. We try to measure some of the more critical speed areas in VectorWorks, but there are many we don't measure and only the user can weigh them based on their value. It is also important to note that if you take any session of use for an application like VectorWorks, that nearly 90 percent of the total time measured is spent waiting for user input.
That said, it looks like the current G5 has erased any performance deficit that the Mac had endured, at least for this application.