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Sunday, August 24, 2003

G5 continues to lose benchmarks against PCs
As expected, the benchmark race continues. And as expected, the "world's fastest PC" is a PC, and not a Mac. On the G4, G5, and AMD Shoot-Out site, AMD trounced the G5 in most tests. "I was a bit surprised at the relative strength of the AMD 2000+ versus the 1.6 [G5]," the site reads (ahem). "In some arenas, the gap was wider than I had expected it to be. In some others, the 970 was competitive ... It's evident from these benchmarks that the 1.6 G5 is competitive with the 1.67 Ghz AMD (2000+ rated), though in most cases the AMD showed itself to be slightly stronger. Of course, these are the results of only one benchmark. Personally, I like this benchmark (Cinebench) since I work graphics and video ... It's nice to see that Apple is at least being competitive from a speed standpoint." I guess it'd be nicer if they lived up to their billing, eh?

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