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| Click here to select a new forum. | | For some strange reason I snagged an original 1.6 G5 tower | Posted by: Cory5412 on 2014-09-24 19:26:11
Good point on the DTK benchmarks. I looked and can't find anything official. This thread is entertaining though: http://community.thefoundry.co.uk/discussion/topic.aspx?f=34&t=3836 given that when the G5 Quad dropped it was, as indicated in the announcement, after the transition was announced, and it was (as shown in the benchmarks linked from that thread) over twice as fast as every other G5 shipping.
"killing it" may be a little bit excessive, but the OptiPlex 260/270 seem to be able to get a score of about 1200 with a 2.4GHz chip: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/2497253 and the 270 was announced in April 2004. (They are essentially the same platform and used most of the same CPUs.) The particular result is from the "SX270" which is going to be the most thermally constrained of the 270 family and is designed to be mounted behind a 17-inch LCD display.
The best collation of Geekbench scores I've seen is the Processor Browser, but the main Processor Browser excludes powerPC benchmarks, it would seem, because it focuses on GeekBench 3 results.
A dual 2GHz G5 from June 2004 can get about 1922 on geekbench2, compared to that (midrange) Pentium 4, single-socket, ExcelBox, from 2004 which gets 1200 on the same test.
So, a dual socket, dual CPU workstation with a 500-800 watt power supply does a little under twice as a cheap ExcelBox with a 300W PSU.
Although frequency is different, I would argue that if a contemporary 3GHz Intel machine (say, a 270 with a 3GHz chip) can score better than the G5, then that's fair game because they're contemporary and the 3GHz Pentium 4 chip is likely to still be pulling less than the G5, and of course there would have been 3GHz dual-socket systems.
Here's some anecdotes from the time about the DTK, which yes was a 3.6GHz single core with HT, "almost matching or outperforming on some benchmarks" the Quad. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=131111
One note on expansion: THe G5s did have some expansion, I often downplay it a lot but they had three PCI slots and two 3.5-inch disk bays. The physical space needed for the type of separation Apple was going for as well as the heatsinks needed to cool the G5s was sort of massive. It's a fairly good efficient design, considering how much heat there is to disperse in the highest end models, even if it's not exactly space-efficient.
| Posted by: yuhong on 2014-10-05 13:15:40
The Quad itself is a really interesting kind of sidenote/footnote for Apple. They were announced and sold after the Intel transition was, for sort of the same reason the "For Mac OS 9" Power Macintosh G4 was introduced in 2003. Apple needed something to keep Photoshop and Final Cut users happy between the 2.7GHz G5 and the impending release of the Mac Pro. Don't forget the last iMac G5 with the "iSight" camera too.
| Posted by: Unknown_K on 2014-10-07 13:20:00
Got in a G5 PCIE Tower of some kind (the specs sticker is gone and there is a refurbed by Apple sticker in its place). Can't power it up because those models use a heavy duty power cable (one is on order) but judging from the Geforce 6600 LE card I assume its the bottom 2.0Ghz model (any other way to tell?).
The case has the top handles crushed, which is why I got it cheap, insides looks fine but a little dusty.
| Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2014-10-07 16:20:11
Does it have the serial number? Could run it through the decoder. http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel
Other than that I don't think you can tell. You'd know if it was a Quad, it'd have a huge LCS in there lol.
You sure it's a 6600LE and not a 6600? The LE was standard on the 2.0, but someone could have stuck it in the 2.3.
| Posted by: Unknown_K on 2014-10-07 20:57:53
I think it is the 128MB model (my notes are in the lab after doing a google search on the part number). Will look for a serial number but I think that was with the sticker that has been removed.
Now I wonder if that unit is going to be tripping a normal surge strip when crunching numbers.
| Posted by: Unknown_K on 2014-10-07 21:38:58
All I see is Apple Certified Reconditioned RM603366R6UF9590LL/A that mean anything?
| Posted by: Unknown_K on 2014-10-07 21:50:57
DC 2.0Ghz G5
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