Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
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Yasu wrote:
Maybe not, but that is 10 year old hardware. How does it fare against a modern processor (i5 or i7)?
I don't know about the rest of you, but the i7, i5, and i3 only seem like slight improvements over the older Core2 series.
I have an i7 laptop, but frankly its core count and hyperthreading capabilities make it closer to an i3 desktop.
I have an older Core2 Quad system that performs better, and with a discrete graphics card it dusts the Intel gpu built into the laptop.
As cpus go, when it was produced the G5 was quite a competitive processor.
It hasn't aged too badly, except that its a real power hog, and it could use some improvement in its multimedia/Altivec instructions.
Its got a really nice floating point unit.
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