DP 1250 performance thread
Post your results here.
My first SETI unit on the DP 1250 took 5h 35min, compared to around 14h on a G4 466 in a Beige G3.
dnet OGR pushes about 27 mnodes/sec, which is faster than a Dual Athlon 1533
Altivec Fractal goes up to ~10400 MFLOPS and Q3A breaks the 400FPS barrier with this config <a href="http://www.g-news.ch/files/q3config.cfg" target="_blank">http://www.g-news.ch/files/q3config.cfg</A> .
(400.6 FPS). haven't done any other meaningful benchmarks so far, but it's fast.
(Mac OS X 10.2.1, 1024MB RAM, Dual 1250MHz G4, Radeon 9000 Pro)
Post your results!
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[ 10-06-2002: Message edited by: G-News ]</p>
My first SETI unit on the DP 1250 took 5h 35min, compared to around 14h on a G4 466 in a Beige G3.
dnet OGR pushes about 27 mnodes/sec, which is faster than a Dual Athlon 1533
Altivec Fractal goes up to ~10400 MFLOPS and Q3A breaks the 400FPS barrier with this config <a href="http://www.g-news.ch/files/q3config.cfg" target="_blank">http://www.g-news.ch/files/q3config.cfg</A> .
(400.6 FPS). haven't done any other meaningful benchmarks so far, but it's fast.
(Mac OS X 10.2.1, 1024MB RAM, Dual 1250MHz G4, Radeon 9000 Pro)
Post your results!
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Comments
I'll have to try boli's config yet.
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Now, i assume that they tested it as a dual, but they make it look like it's just one processor. They must have some very MP aware bechmarks.
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<strong>I dare say both the xeon and the P4 that rank above it would cost very similar amounts with the same equipment as the DP 1250. I even dare say teh Xeon would probably cost more.
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I would tend to agree with you.
A stock Dp1250 with 1GB RAM, please. And don't forget the SuperDrive and the gigabit Ethernet.
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Dual 1.25 - 25 PlatinumVerbs or 98 FM-7 notes
Dual 867 - 18 PlatinumVerbs or 64 FM-7 notes
PB 667 - 14 PlatinumVerbs or 49 FM-7 notes
of course, if multiprocessing was better implemented in Logic in either 9 or X, the performance would improve to:
Dual 1.25 - 40 PlatinumVerbs AND 35 FM-7 notes or 162 FM-7 notes AND 8 PlatinumVerbs
Dual 867 - 33 PlatinumVerbs AND 15 FM-7 notes or 128 FM-7 notes
PB 667 - remains the same
anyway, at least as it regards logic, the DUAL hardware isn't the problem - it is the software which needs to be written to use it.
cheers
edit: added DUAL
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<strong>I'm happy to see your proposal of how you'd want to accomplish this.
A stock Dp1250 with 1GB RAM, please. And don't forget the SuperDrive and the gigabit Ethernet.
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You can build such a system for less than $2000 (CHF 2900, 512MB Ram, same as the dp 1.25 base config for $3299).
Edit: G-News, head over to steg.ch if you don't believe me.
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Also it's not even remotely fair to compare Apple to the cheapest reasonable mailorder in Switzerland, compare them to places like Data2000 or Nyce. Sure, you'll end up having a cheaper setup hardwarewise in the end, just that the hardware alone isn't worth a dime without the software to use it.
Comparing Macs to PCs is comparing Apples to Oranges, which is why it was a retorical question to prove me wrong. You can't, unless you revive the clones.
So to draw the bottom line, while Macs are expensive, and more expensive than PCs, they're far less overpriced than everyone thinks. You pay a little premium for the brand name, sure thing, but most of it ist justified.
For a more Apples to Apples comparison, why don't you go configure a similar system over at <a href="http://www.dell.com" target="_blank">www.dell.com</a>
I just did, and without airport readiness and without gigabit Ethernet or FireWire, it costs
$3,414.00 for a Dimension 8250 already.
Now tell me Macs are overpriced.
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