[BUGS] BUGS Digest, Vol 16, Issue 2

[Jerahmy Pocott]

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On 16/01/2009, at 12:05 AM, ..I'd rather be coding ASM! wrote:

> Dual 2gb G5 Dual core with shared L2 Cache:
> 27m09s
> Dual 1.5gb G4 7448b with non-shared L2 and no L3
> 9m31s
> Core2Duo X7800 Extreme Ed with unified L2
> 49m17s


As far as I'm concerned G5s don't really exist..

But we are talking about vectorization here, which is not something  
you are you going to find in your average desktop application.. I mean  
sure it all depends on what you're doing, but for many applications  
the raw speed of the G5 is going to out perform the G4..

I'v also seen SSE3 perform close to Altivec, although the CPUs with  
SSE3 were faster, it does seem intel are getting closer with it..