Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 30th Jan 2006 20:48 UTC, submitted by Matt Simpson
GeekPatrol puts their new cross platform benchmarking tool to work and compares 12 machines including the new iMacs, PowerMacs, an Athlon64, a P4c, and a Xeon. "The PowerPC G5 is still a good processor. In fact, it's still a great processor. Apple isn't switching to Intel chips because Intel chips perform better, but rather because a G5 would melt through the bottom of a laptop. The Athlon 64 edged out the Pentium 4c on all the CPU tests, while the Pentium 4c edged out the Athlon 64 on all the memory tests. It seems to me that Intel and AMD have had their different strengths all along, so I don't find this surprising. The Intel Core Duo is a great processor. It performed as well or better than the PowerPC G5 at similar clock speeds (1.8GHz and 2.0GHz), and has nowhere to go but up."
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Right, but it's more like comparing the performance of the same engines in two different cars without listing the weight of the two vehicles. A 180hp motor will push a 2400lb car with a lot more authority than a 3400lb car, to use as a metaphor.
Likewise, an older NetBSD without any GUI will likely run these simple tests somewhat faster on the same hardware.
Because there flat-out isn't going to be parity between different operating systems on this same hardware, it would be much more useful to know what OS is running for each test. I don't think that's all that hard to see but I've been wrong before.
It's also worth considering that these are very early days for OSX on the Intel platform, whereas Windows has run on Intel for something like 20 years.