Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
Quote:
Andreas_Wolf wrote:
> would I pay an arm and a leg for a P5020 based based system when
> a T10XX based board the would perform almost 3/4s as well
This may depend on the price of such T1-based system, I reckon.
> Even if SMP were supported the G5 would probably still come out on top.
This would depend on the specific PowerMac G5 model and the scalability of the task. With a task scaling well to four cores, four 2.2 GHz e5500 cores would be slower than four 2.5 GHz PPC970MP cores but faster than two 2.7 GHz PPC970FX cores.
So 2.5 dual, 2.7 dual and 2.5 Quad systems would probably beat the P5020 based model and might also beat the P5040 model if SMP is not utilized.
And, if SMP is somehow supported, then the only Mac G5 system that would lead the P5040 model is a Quad 2.5.
Well, the X5000 P5040 model doesn't look like a bad choice, except we are not likely to see SMP support under PPC MorphOS.
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