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<blockquote data-quote="meltbanana314" data-source="post: 81236"><p>Not exactly...</p><p></p><p>G5s have wider buses than P4s. The new P4s have 1066MHz buses and they don't really have any speed advantages over the 800MHz bus models. As of August of last year, PowerPC 970FX processors have 1250MHz buses. </p><p></p><p>G5s are pure 64bit w/ 32bit backwards compatibility (sort of like AMD64s.) P4s are pure 32bit with a 64bit emulation layer (EMT64) implemented, which is not as fast as pure 64bit.</p><p></p><p>The G5s are faster, and have some great advantages over x86-based processors.</p><p></p><p>Plus, PC Magazine benchmark a while back was totally biased against the G5. The only fair comparison was Photoshop rendering times, and the G5 was only a second or two behind the AMD64.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="meltbanana314, post: 81236"] Not exactly... G5s have wider buses than P4s. The new P4s have 1066MHz buses and they don't really have any speed advantages over the 800MHz bus models. As of August of last year, PowerPC 970FX processors have 1250MHz buses. G5s are pure 64bit w/ 32bit backwards compatibility (sort of like AMD64s.) P4s are pure 32bit with a 64bit emulation layer (EMT64) implemented, which is not as fast as pure 64bit. The G5s are faster, and have some great advantages over x86-based processors. Plus, PC Magazine benchmark a while back was totally biased against the G5. The only fair comparison was Photoshop rendering times, and the G5 was only a second or two behind the AMD64. [/QUOTE]
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