G5 1.6 & 1.8 unimpressive performance
I just wandered into CompUSA here in San Rafael, CA to check out the new G5. They had a 1.6 & a 1.8 set up for people to play with. I just did one simple test: On both machines I fired up the CPU Monitor, opened a finder window & grabbed the resize tab in the lower right corner, doing a continuous resize for 10 seconds or so. In each case, that simple action pegged the meter at 100%. Lame. On the 1.8 machine I fired up the Apple System Profiler. Spinning beachball and the app took more than 30 seconds to produce its window. Uh huh. So this is the killer G5. Glad I decided to wait. So now the excuse is we are waiting for Panther? Apple seems to live from one excuse to the next. Obviously, they were stretching the hype to the max. These machines should have been duals across the line, for the price they are asking. I would be willing to bet the MWSF lineup will be all duals, and those who jumped at these overpriced new G5s will be feelling pretty silly. I'll buy a dual 2 GHz G5 next spring, when it is the bottom of the line for $1799
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Did you try actually doing anything *useful* on them, or did you just perform useless motions that you're never going to replicate in real life?
I can sometimes launch Apple System Profiler really quickly, and sometimes it takes forever. I think it depends on whether it's been launched recently or something.
Neither one of your tests has anything to do with real-world performance. I'd also like to know what your standard of comparison was - if, say, it took 100% CPU to do a particular task on the 1.6 or 1.8 that only took 40% of the CPU on the dual 2.0, then you'd have a point.
Didn't you try any "real" applications, like, say, changing your desktop picture or reconfiguring the display from thousands to millions of colors, or modifying the system beep? You know, stuff that power users spend most of their time doing?
Ah, the good old days of walking into a lab of //e's, quickly typing in '10 POKE (RND(32000), RND(255)) 20 GOTO 10 RUN' and walking away while the thing had fits...
http://www.mac-pro-audio.de/email-bi...erG5-test.html
as the report is in german, is anyone of you able to translate it? (i'm too lazy )
Originally posted by Leonis
The G5 shines only if the app is tuned for it....
so - where's the problem?
Originally posted by qazII
Apple System Profiler responds instantly for me, for both main tab and devices and volumes. 1.8 stock + 1 gig extra ram.
That's because you keep opening it to remind yourself that you're on A NEW G5!!!!
-- Mark
Originally posted by Krassy
just for your information - the G5 1.6 was tested in a logic audio performance comparison to the older G4. the results are really impressive. the G5 has 2-3 times the performance of a dual 1GHz.
http://www.mac-pro-audio.de/email-bi...erG5-test.html
as the report is in german, is anyone of you able to translate it? (i'm too lazy )
Yeah, these logic tests that are coming out look really great. 52 PV's is really amazing, and that's on the low-end 1.6. It's going to be really interesting to see the number on a 2 Ghz (or 3Gz next summer!)
Originally posted by heaven or las vegas
This guy I know who is a PC user... he walks into CompUSA and notices the new G5. (Its a stock 1.6 GHz with 256 MB memory).
Apple isn't helping the perception by stocking the machines with 256MB RAM. All that CPU power and all that system bandwidth aren't worth much if you're swapping.
Originally posted by giant
Yeah, these logic tests that are coming out look really great. 52 PV's is really amazing, and that's on the low-end 1.6. It's going to be really interesting to see the number on a 2 Ghz (or 3Gz next summer!)
People are going to get sick of pasting Platinum Verbs into channels long before they hit the limit with the Dual 2.0 machines.
I'm not gonna say "Who needs 80 reverbs?" because someone out there will want to do it, but good lord!
CV
These are the tests I did:
Word opened in one bounce
System profiler open and profiled the system in about 2 senconds
iTunes Window resizing was smooth unlike on my G4 1Ghz.