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Benchmarks: Dual Core vs. Dual Processor |
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In this Apples-to-Apples comparison the battle is PowerPC G5 vs. G5 at 2.3 GHz... with interesting results.
In addition to the main story, here's a bit about Sun's 8-core Niagara chip, and AMD's Athlon 64 X2 dual core CPU.
The latest Power Macs ship with dual-core 2.0GHz and 2.3GHz PowerPC G5 processors, as opposed to the two single-core chips in the preceding models. Apple also added faster DDR2 RAM and PCI Express graphics cards to the new models, replacing DDR memory and AGP graphics cards. That change helped the new Power Macs edge past their respective predecessors with similar clock speeds.
The dual-core 2.3GHz Power Mac fared better than a single-core dual-processor 2.3GHz model in six of our seven tests.
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| | read more | mail this link | score:8011 | -Ray, October 28, 2005 |
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