[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> - "It is 3 times faster then the PIII 600Mhz." Based on what? Give us some
> SPECint or SPECfp figures that support this before making such claims. The
> only datum provided (below) indicates a speedup of 1.45x, far less than 3x.
>
Apple is really blowing this G4 hype out of proportions.
It is a really nice chip, but looking at the SPEC numbers:
http://www.mot.com/SPS/PowerPC/products/semiconductor/cpu/7400.html
... they show that it's basically a G3 + Altivec and a nice FPU:
CPU SPECint95 SPECfp95
----------- --------- --------
G3-450 21.4 13.8
G4-450 21.4 20.4
P3-550 22.3 15.1
P3-600 24.0 15.9
Athlon-550 25.1 20.6
Athlon-650 29.4 22.4
Alpha EV67-667 37.5 65.5
So this "128-bit 1 Gigaflops supercomputer" is just a load of
Apple marketing propaganda (yeah, Intel does this crap too, remember
"more vibrant colors" with MMX and "enhanced Internet experience"
with SSE...).
-- Petri H.
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