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Help understand rendering time on iMac 2.16 versus Dual 1.8
I bought a iMac 2.16 and put 3gb ram in it. I am replacing my dual 1.8 G5 with 2gb ram.
all benchmark tests online said that the imac blows away my g5.
well today, i made a 30 sec comp with a solid in it and rendered it out on both machines. I used AE 6.5.
the imac took 15 sec to do it and the dual g5 only 10 sec.
what is up? how can that be?
Is it because it was AE 6.5? Does CS3 work better on intel? I am to try that next after installing.
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[Milton Hockman] “Is it because it was AE 6.5? Does CS3 work better on intel?”
yes. cs3 is a universal binary (intel native), and ae7 and earlier are powerpc only.
ae7 and earlier will run on an intel mac, but it has to run under rosetta (powerpc emulation). rosetta limits the resources available to the intel mac, and thus hurts performance. there was a post here at the cow and also posted on adobe’s ae forum, that helped explain this, and had suggestions for settings that increased performance of ae running under rosetta, if you are interested…
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
I agree with Previous post by Kevin. Once you get into CS3 AE … You will notice a HUGE difference.
I felt the same way when I upgraded equipment. There was not much of a difference in Speed from my G5 and my Intel Mac. Then when I got the CS3 Package, it was a major surprise. I love the setup. Do a trial of CS3 AE and see for yourself what I mean. (but don’t do any major projects on the trial; You can’t go back to AE7 once it is created in AE CS3 … just in case you didn’t know)
Good Luck with your new set up.
-Raymond Tuquero-
Houston Editor
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