ProphetDK wrote:Hmm athlon64 chips eh? How do they stack up against Apple's G5? Their 64 bit processors came out in august.
Yeah too bad our Opteron's (also 64-bit) came out in April and then there's Alpha that did it YEARS ago.
How do they stack up? Would you like the truth or that of Steve Jobs? Grr I wish I could find theinquirer comic that made fun of jobs and his reality distortion bubble

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Basically Apple did their own benchmarks with everything pretty much disabled on the x86 end (intel and AMD) and it won. Non-industry people did benchmarks and the G5 got stomped by CURRENT x86 technology (i.e. non 64-bit Athlons or Prescots...just normal P4 and Athlons).
Now that there are these new chips coming out, I'd imagine the G5 sucks even more. Call me an Apple basher, but they've been behind the performance times for years. Given, their G5 did close the gap, but now with Athlon 64's and Prescots, it'll just increase again.