Any idea how a quad would do against a 1.8 iMac G5?
I currently have a 1.8 GHz iMac G5. It has 1.5 GB ram.
I use Final Cut Pro HD, LiveType, and DVD Studio Pro quite a bit. I am trying to decide if I want to go ahead and get the Quad or just one of the dual core machines. This is all based on the performance increase.
Anyone know what kind of gains could be had in the above apps making the switch?
I am wanting to say no more render garbage and possibly cutting down on my DVDSP3 render times by half.
I use Final Cut Pro HD, LiveType, and DVD Studio Pro quite a bit. I am trying to decide if I want to go ahead and get the Quad or just one of the dual core machines. This is all based on the performance increase.
Anyone know what kind of gains could be had in the above apps making the switch?
I am wanting to say no more render garbage and possibly cutting down on my DVDSP3 render times by half.
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Does not really measure bandwidth, disk access, or graphics of course.
So far we have
My Dual 2.0 gHz G5 - 3 seconds
Powerdoc's Quad - 1 second
1.0 gHz G4 tower - 30 seconds
G4 Cube - 169 seconds
PowerBook 1.5 gHz - 20 seconds
DualCore G5 2.3 gHz - 3 seconds
This is for computing the factorial of 16, 50 million times.
It is on my iDisk johnnylundy
Originally posted by lundy
Run my factorial app that exercises the ALU for a rough estimate of processor horsepower.
Does not really measure bandwidth, disk access, or graphics of course.
So far we have
My Dual 2.0 gHz G5 - 3 seconds
Powerdoc's Quad - 1 second
1.0 gHz G4 tower - 30 seconds
G4 Cube - 169 seconds
PowerBook 1.5 gHz - 20 seconds
DualCore G5 2.3 gHz - 3 seconds
This is for computing the factorial of 16, 50 million times.
It is on my iDisk johnnylundy
Thanks! I got the program and as soon as my iMac writes the latest short to file, I will run the program again (right now it got 25 seconds) and see what my computer gets without writing video. It looks like a quad is the way to go for my type of apps.
R u a bulldog fan?
Originally posted by aplnub
R u a bulldog fan?
Georgia Tech, I must say, interests me more. 8)
Originally posted by lundy
Run my factorial app that exercises the ALU for a rough estimate of processor horsepower.
Does not really measure bandwidth, disk access, or graphics of course.
So far we have
My Dual 2.0 gHz G5 - 3 seconds
Powerdoc's Quad - 1 second
1.0 gHz G4 tower - 30 seconds
G4 Cube - 169 seconds
PowerBook 1.5 gHz - 20 seconds
DualCore G5 2.3 gHz - 3 seconds
This is for computing the factorial of 16, 50 million times.
It is on my iDisk johnnylundy
20" iMac G5 1.8 GHz (1st gen.) - 7 Seconds
I root for the orange blooded neighbors to the north...
Originally posted by aplnub
20" iMac G5 1.8 GHz (1st gen.) - 7 Seconds
I root for the orange blooded neighbors to the north...
I have also the same Imac G5. On photoshop 7 I did not see a huge difference after having tried differents filters. The file open more quickly, that was the biggest improvement. I'd say that on photoshop the quad is 30 % faster in most tasks.
Final cut pro HD is MP aware, unfortunately final cut express HS is not : screw Apple
Originally posted by lundy
Run my factorial app that exercises the ALU for a rough estimate of processor horsepower.
Does not really measure bandwidth, disk access, or graphics of course.
So far we have
My Dual 2.0 gHz G5 - 3 seconds
Powerdoc's Quad - 1 second
1.0 gHz G4 tower - 30 seconds
G4 Cube - 169 seconds
PowerBook 1.5 gHz - 20 seconds
DualCore G5 2.3 gHz - 3 seconds
This is for computing the factorial of 16, 50 million times.
It is on my iDisk johnnylundy
Oh boy : my quad is 30 times faster in your test than my powerbook G4 1 ghz
Originally posted by theapplegenius
i just got the program and it says 12 seconds. does that make sence on a 1.2GHz iBook G4 w/ 512MB RAM?
I'll check my iBook tonight and post back. Sounds close if not better than I would have thought.
Originally posted by theapplegenius
i just got the program and it says 12 seconds. does that make sence on a 1.2GHz iBook G4 w/ 512MB RAM?
Yep. aplnub got the same result.