PPC970 first benchmark on mac...next on as400 !

Hello,

Here is a cut past (i took only english part) from a mac site.
http://www.macbidouille.com

The 1st benchmark of ppc970.

[By reading these benchmarks you'll understand that we couldn't publish 
them before. 
Now we know that PM G4 sells are stuck at a very low level, the 
following test results won't have much incidence. It will however make 
the ones switching to PC wait for the next generation of Power Macs.] 

[The first benchmarks were done during March 2003 on a preview model 
running at 1.4 GHz. OS was an alpha version 7B5 and 7B8 of Panther, 
optimised for 64 bits processor, but the applications tested were only 
using 32 bits.] 

[Photoshop : PPC 970 mono 1.4 is 87% faster than a Dual 1.42 GHz Final 
Cut Pro : PPC 970 mono 1.4 is 112% faster than a Dual 1.42 GHz 
Alias|Wavefront Maya Render : PPC 970 mono 1.4 is 254% faster than a 
Dual 1.42 GHz] 

[The second series of benchmarks were done on the same computers that 
will be sold. There is however a doubt on the presence of the up-market 
dual 2.0 GHz as the availability of these chips isn't sure. It seems 
Apple will surely be able to sell Mono 1.4 GHz, Dual 1.6 and Dual 1.8.] 

[The result is that the G4 compared to the PPC 970 is now a secretary 
computer.] 

[A few explanations to the results : 
- The Altivec shows a 80% increase of performances with the 970. This is 
not due to the chip itself, but to the high speed access between 
processor and central memory. The Mach 64 motherboard is highly 
optimised for the use of DDR-SDRAM. 
- There is no performance loss when the PPC 970 executes some 32 bits 
apps. 
- The motherboard optimization almost allows dual processors to reach 
double performance. In fact it's about 90% efficiency gained with the 
second processor, compared to 50% for the G4.] 

[Looking closely to these results we understand why Apple didn't need to 
wait for a 64 bits OS to launch the PPC 970. We'll take advantage of a 
50% gain of performance between he up-market Pro G4 and the first PPC 
970. We can imagine the difference with the top level PPC 970. It will 
be the best evolution ever between two Mac generations.] 

[Mac fans, our wait will be rewarded. The fight is over and Apple will 
soon rule the world !] 

Next on as400 !