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07-09-2003, 02:58 PM
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Lord Soth
 Join Date: March 5, 2001
Location: Southern California
Posts: 1,948
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Here's a comparison using info from both the AMD website and the Apple website.
Test Systems: Apple G5 dual 2GHz and AMD Opteron 244 dual(1.8GHz) SPECfp_rate_base2000 (G5)15.7 (AMD)24.7 (% faster)57% SPEComt_rate_base2000 (G5)17.2 (AMD)25.0 (% faster)45% SPECfp_base2000 (G5)840 (AMD)1122 (% faster)34% SPECint_base2000 (G5)800 (AMD)1095 (% faster)37%
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07-09-2003, 03:24 PM
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Galvatron
 Join Date: January 10, 2002
Location: Upstate NY
Age: 56
Posts: 2,109
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One thing in the defense of Apple... the dual Opteron boxes are going to be very expensive, and are targeted at the server market (no AGP bus). Although I hear that the nforce mobo coming for the Opteron will have 8x AGP. I would say that price wise they're very competitive for a change, and for $3000 you'd be hard pressed to find a PC that can compete with their published performance. I bought a high end Dual Xeon Dell box not long ago that would beat up the Apple... but it also cost almost 10g's.
I just priced a 3ghz Dell system with all the bells and whistles I want (Dual channel ddr, Radeon 9800 Pro with second monitor connector, 120gb SATA, Audigy, 17" flat panel ... $2800. The G5 looks pretty darn competitive. It's the first Apple I've seen that I'd consider buying, but sadly I'm too M$ commited to do so... my next PC will probably be bought to kick Doom III butt, and all my buddies are PC centric. |
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