Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
Quote:
Andreas_Wolf wrote:
> From a users "seat of the pants" experience, does your G5 seem 80% faster
> than your G4 MacMini was?
For use cases where the CPU and/or the memory bandwidth were maxed out for more than a few seconds on the G4, yes, the calculated 80% happen to coincide with my perception. As said, video playback is the task where I experience the gain the best.
After using G4 hardware for year, as Andreas has, I became somewhat accustomed to the 'weaker points' of the capabilities of MorphOS ( many of which seem inherent in Amiga related operating systems).
As such, I still have difficulty justifying using most of my CPU power just to decide video.
We could have adopted gpu assisted decoding or other hardware based decoding technologies years ago.
We shouldn't be struggling to display 1080p video when ARM systems with less capable CPUs have no problem displaying this content.
I, for one, will continue to use alternate devices for this purpose, as keeping a Windows, OSX, or Android device nearby while using my MorphOS system is not too high a price to pay as an alternative to wasting approximately half my MorphOS system's processing power only to render lower resolution HD videos.
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