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Mac Performance In The Raw - Power Mac Dual G5/2.7GHz versus G5 Power Mac Quad Core 2.5 GHz - A Performance Comparison

 
Thursday, April 14, 2006
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Hi Brandon,

Your comparison follows below ...

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Power Mac Dual G5/2.7GHz versus G5 Power Mac Quad Core 2.5 GHz

Power Mac Dual G5/2.7GHz - M9749LL/A - April , 2005
Power Mac Quad Core G5/2.5 GHz- M9592LL/A - October 2005

Specifications info
Power Mac Dual G5/2.7GHz
G5 Power Mac Quad Core 2.5 GHz

Initial price difference:
Power Mac Dual G5/2.7GHz - $2,999
G5 Power Mac Quad Core 2.5 GHz - $3,299

Current price difference:
Power Mac Dual G5/2.7GHz - $2,149
G5 Power Mac Quad Core 2.5 GHz - $2,799

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Performance
In Performance the G5 Power Mac Quad Core 2.5 GHz is ....

Processor Single - 9% slower ++
Processor Multiple - 61% faster ++
Processor Saturation - 84% faster
Graphics Card - 18% faster ++
Graphics Processor - 3% slower ++
Graphics Gaming - 91% faster
Graphics Interface - 8% faster
Copy (many files) - 21% faster
Copy (Single large file) - 61% faster

QuickTime Encode Single - 21% slower
QuickTime Encode Mutitasking - 26% faster
iMovie Render - 16% faster
iTunes Encode (From CD) - 8% slower
Word Macro - 3% slower
Unreal (Game) - 18% faster
Photoshop Filters (Dual Tuned) - 54% faster
Photoshop Filters - 19% slower
Photoshop Workflow - 10% faster

++ The processor & graphics card scores above are based on CineBench 9.5 (email us to request the actual point scores for these machines)
http://www.cinebench.com/
The game test was obtain by running EVO2 4X4
http://www.aspyr.com/games.php/mac/4x4/

I am not familiar with Digital Performer, but according to a Macworld review it is Multi-Process savvy and so should be able take advantage of the multiprocessors of these two machines. Whether it can take complete advantage of all the huge capacity of the Quad Core machine, I don't know ... but perhaps MOTU has this information. If you can run multiple processes at the same time within Digital Performer, or can run several copies of the software at the same time working on separate tasks, then there is little doubt that you can max out the processing capacity of the Quad machine. Running two QuickTime encodes at the same time, we were still unable to max out the processors of the Quad Power Mac (about 87%). If we had added a third encode we would have filled the processing capacity completely.

There is no doubt that the Quad machine will provide you with a more flexible platform, but will your workflow and applications take advantage of all that power. Another thing that our results show is that the hard drive on the Quad, when working on large files, is significantly faster than the 2.7 GHz machine ... this might be an issue in your work.

If you have follow up questions about these results contact us again

Additional Resources

Power Mac InfoZone
Power Mac Performance
Performance Profiles
Power Mac Performance vs Others
Power Mac Buyer's Guide
Power Mac Specs & Features
Power Mac Reviews
Power Mac Discussion Forum
Apple's Power Mac Page
Apple's Previous Power Mac Specification Details

Also search at MacReviewZone/MacSpeedZone on the following part numbers M9032LL or M9590LL which should turn up additional information
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Comparison Crew

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On Apr 12, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Brandon wrote:

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Quad Core 2.5GHz
vs. Power Mac G5 Dual 2.7 GHz

More specifically, the results with Digital Performer and the maximum number of recording tracks possible how fast do you want to go? 24 bit 192K. I'm a professional composer who has a slew of computers; all of them maxed out in Ram, Hard Drives, Graphics Cards, etc. Many projects require 100+ live audio tracks and plenty of internal plug-ins with multiple external effects. Each individual cue (segment of a long project) is several GigaBytes in size. I realize PhotoShop is where everyone is at, but... IOW, does Digital Performer recogize those juicy new cores? I'm also going to call my MOTU rep, but I thought you gentlemen might have some more "street" figures not based on advertisements. Thank you.

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Power Mac - Current

Power Mac Quad Core G5/2.5GHz - M9592LL/A - Originally: $3,299

This Section Updated Tuesday, October 9, 2007


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Basic Stats
Power Mac - M9592LL/A
G5/2.5 GHz 2X Dual Core processor
1MB L2 Cache - Per Core
1.25 GHz Frontside Bus
512MB memory
NVIDIA GeForce 6600
256MB Graphics Memory
250GB Hard Drive 7200 rpm
16x SuperDrive
(DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
Released 10/05
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Quad Core G5/2.5 GHz - Reviews
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Performance
Score
%
Processor Multi CB
1157
+448%
Processor Single CB
379
+224%
Graphics Card CB
1592
+684%
Graphics Games fps
61
+239%
Hard Drive sec.
43.68
+164%
QuickTime sec.
86.63
+174%
CB = CineBench 9.5 Score
% = Performance compared to Power Mac Dual G4/1.0GHz
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Performance Profiles
Quad Core 2.5 GHz - M9592LL/A
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vs Power Mac G4/867MHz
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vs Power Mac G5 Dual 2.5ghz
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$559 - Used - 90day - PowerMax unavailable
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$479 - Used - 90day - PowerMax unavailable

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