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Originally Posted by Juho L
Nah. It was just silly to say "twice as fast" when talking about a computer that in theory has two computers in same.
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I think it looks even more silly when carillon shows some benchmarks where G5 Dual 2.5GHz! is at the same line with single processor PCs and the benchmark has more to do with poor optimization than real calculation power.
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Like I said earlier the new sequencers are heavier due improved algorithms. For example it's quite a big difference between Cubase VST32 and SX3.
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Yes, that's true, but like I also said, Apple has managed to improve the logic's code so much that logic7 needs less cpu power to run than logic6 altough there are several improvements in the audio engine too.
And you can always build a dual processor pc too but that's another story. A computer is still a computer, doesn't matter how many processors it has inside. I think there's nothing silly if I say that my mac is twice as fast as my pc because it is. My point was to prove that a dual G5 is definitely not on the same line with single processor pc. If it was, why would I have bought a mac then...
In contrary, if you want to take a look at some Apple's benchmarks...
http://www.apple.com/powermac/performance/
Edit. It seems that the carillon's test was totally gay...
1. They used SX3 as a sequencer which performs even worse than SX2 on mac.
2. They used M-Audio Audiophile 2496 soundcard which doesn't have very good mac drivers.
3. They got clicks and pops with the G5 propably because they had used the automatic power saving mode and a poor soundcard. You must always use the "highest performance" setting for the G5 if you run any audio application like cubase, logic etc... (for example with RME soundcards and their superior core audio drivers you can use 0,5-1ms latency and it doesn't even make a big hit on the CPUs. I think the PCs would have been in trouble if the tests were run with those latencies.)
So when they tested the pro tools le, the G5 won the tests with only 60% of it's power. Normally you can run the cpu bars up to 100% with no problems at all.