Submitted by “Since we released Geekbench 2006 on July 10th, we’ve received over 4800 Geekbench results; over half of those results are from computers running Mac OS X. I took a look at the results, and found that we’ve received results for almost every computer model Apple’s shipped in the past six years, from the iMac G3 to the Mac Pro. Since we love us some benchmarks here at Geek Patrol, I thought it’d be interesting to put together an overview of Mac performance over the past six years.”
“The Mac Pro didn’t bring a huge performance jump over the Power Mac G5 (unlike like the jump in performance from the Power Mac G4 to the Power Mac G5)…”
Am I reading the graphs wrong? I think I am seing about 25% increase.
Then again, the latest G5 was 3 times as fast as the latest G4 (if I’m reading this correctly). That’s a lot more diff. Then again 1.25 x a lot = still a lot more.
The proper comparison is the latest G4 with the earliest G5 (60%), since we’re talking about the latest G5 with the earliest Core 2 (33%). It’s smaller relatively, but its a pretty big jump considering we’re talking about machines that are less than a year apart. And of course, the G4 was retained way past its expiration date, and was positively obsolete when the G5 came out. On the other hand, the dual-core G5 is still a relatively competitive chip, and the Core 2 still beats it by a substantial margin.
intersting to see how my old summer 2000 iMac is slapped silly by my new ibook
i already knew this of course, but its nice to see
New Mac Pros are 7 times as powerful mas my original PowerPC (B&W @ 350)!
My B&W was more than 10x powerful than my first ever computer (68040 w/o FPU)….
Computing has progressed a lot…