Recent high-end performance tests show AMD’s 64-bit Athlon and dual Opteron processors beating Apple’s G5 and Intel’s Pentium 4, but analysts have downplayed the results, citing lack of available 64-bit applications in addition to market timing. While Apple has claimed its Power Mac G5 is the world’s fastest personal computer, the G5’s processor failed to top the Athlon64 in speed tests running Word and Premiere 6. In addition, the G5, like Intel’s Pentium 4, provided fewer frames per second on Quake III than the Athlon.
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AMD Beats Apple’s G5 and Intel’s P4
Posted by: Jay Lyman October 15, 2003 02:01 PMRecent high-end performance tests show AMD’s 64-bit Athlon and dual Opteron processors beating Apple’s G5 and Intel’s Pentium 4, but analysts have downplayed the results, citing lack of available 64-bit applications in addition to market timing. While Apple has claimed its Power Mac G5 is the world’s fastest personal computer, the G5’s processor failed to top the Athlon64 in speed tests running Word and Premiere 6. In addition, the G5, like Intel’s Pentium 4, provided fewer frames per second on Quake III than the Athlon.