There is a long history of discussing benchmark programs on the Apple SciTech List. <http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/scitech>
I would suggest you put the question there. Benchmarks can be very illusionary and favor the specific characteristics of a certain processor type, so you definitely need to see how your real world computation does it. What do you need MIPS for anyway? Both the G4 and the especially the G5 can give you plenty, but it certainly depends on the code being optimized for. Have a look here: <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Performance/Conceptual/Performance Fundamentals/index.html> And here: <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Performance/Conceptual/CodeSpeed/i ndex.html> Besides, the G4 is an outdated processor by now, so if you need performance, go for a G5. (I know, I know, they are still useful, as I just got a G4 1.25 GHz PB this spring and it is brilliant. It totally outruns my 2.8 GHz P4 at work at real life stuff. It may not however, when doing a benchmark that does not take advantage of Altivec.) If you happen to write your own code the SciTech list is totally awesome as the engineers from Apple will guide you to stellar results. Have a look at http://www.apple.com/acg/ too. Cheers, Kim On 19/07/04 5:33, "Jonathan Newman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have many PCs and a couple macs running [EMAIL PROTECTED], and today I was > upgrading everything to boinc because I was getting problems with > classic. > > Anyways, heres the problem, my slowest PC, a 550MHz P3 w/128MB RAM got > 675 on it's whetstone bechmanr, and 1992 on it's drystone. > > My B&W G3 running @ 500MHz got: 313 Whetstone, and 731 Drystone! and my > B&W has 512MB RAM! > > Again my 1.3 GHz P3 Dell laptop got 1390 whetstone, and 2498 drystone > > And my 1.25GHz eMac got 587 Whetstone, and 1741 Drystone! > > why are my macs clocking in so slow! I was under the impression that > the mac were a far superior system, especially for CPU crunching! I > figured my 1.25GHz eMac was on par with my 3.0GHz Hyperthreaded P4 > (which scored 3372 whetstone, and 3884 drystone) This horrible lag in > performance is almost unacceptable! But maybe I'm doing somthing wrong. > I dont think I am, but I might be. Does anyone else see this? > > Manypeople say that speed in GHz doesn't count. But in my book, MIPS > EXTREAMLY important. I expected AT LEAST the exact same MIPS that my > 3GHz was doing. > > It's actually making me rethink my Apple purchaces! > > - Jonathan -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
