Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
Quote:
Andreas_Wolf wrote:
> the G5 [...] could use some improvement in its multimedia/Altivec instructions.
Anything missing in G5's AltiVec instructions compared to G4?
No, they should be identical.
They only seem dated in comparison to continuing development in X64 instructions.
And its obviously better to have them than not (as in the e5500 core).
I actually had to struggle to come up with any real deficiencies for the G5.
In fact, when you compare it to the highest power draw AMD cpus, it still doesn't look that bad.
"Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
