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Wednesday, September 24, 2003

More benchmarks: PCs handily beat G5 for 3D gaming
Bare Feats once again provides proof that the PowerMac G5 is not the world's fastest PC, as it lost every single 3D gaming benchmark to various PCs. The site's comments are self-explanatory, especially their suspicion about Apple's reported numbers. "Though the G5 has gained ground, the Pentium 4 (3GHz, DDR, 800FSB) still dominates when it comes to 3D HW accelerated games. Maybe the story will change when Apple releases OS X 10.3 "Panther" and developers tweak the gameware with G5 code optimizations ... Apple Computer posted their own G5 vs P4 Quake test results on their Power Mac G5 Graphics page (near bottom). As you can see from the Quake 1024x768 graph above, we got different numbers even though we tested the same machines with the same configurations and same version of OS. Apple may have used tweaked version of Quake, but that doesn't explain why their Pentium 4 numbers were so low." No, it doesn't.

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