New Mac Pro 2.26 vs previous Mac Pro 3.0

[Glenn Fisher]

I don’t have any information to back this up with, but I would doubt it. Sure, there will be a little bit of a speed boost with the new processors, but I don’t think it would be that significant.

[Shane Ross]

Sure it is…

https://www.barefeats.com/nehal03.html

Breaks the MEGAHERTZ MYTH…

Shane

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[Michael Sacci]

I think there is A LOT of speed under the hood that is waiting to be unleashed, we just need software to take advantage of it. I think, think year we will see the software keep a big step forward performance wise. At least I hope we do.

[Chris Borjis]

someone doing a review of benchmarking mentioned if
you are budgeting between the fastest quad or the slowest octo,
your best performance right now would be the fastest quad
since the slowest octo on non-multi-core enabled apps (everything but compressor at this point lol)
will be slightly slower than the quad core.

a lot of people don’t realize, the more cores you have, there is a little
more overhead for each core before you get to the performance gain.
4 cores doesn’t mean 4x speed increase, but more like 3.1x or maybe a bit less.

with intel spouting off to everyone to get there butts in gear with multi-thread
and multi-cpu apps though, that should help quite a bit.

[Sean Oneil]

[Glenn Fisher] “I don’t have any information to back this up with, but I would doubt it. Sure, there will be a little bit of a speed boost with the new processors, but I don’t think it would be that significant.”

You’re not the first person to assume this, and I honestly don’t get it. By your logic, wouldn’t a 2.7ghz PowerMac G5 be faster than a 2.6ghz Mac Pro?

These new chips are a big bump, and will only get faster with newer software.

Sean

[Russell Lasson]

[Sean ONeil] “By your logic, wouldn’t a 2.7ghz PowerMac G5 be faster than a 2.6ghz Mac Pro? “

And doesn’t PowerMac suggest it would have… well… more “Power” than a Mac Pro? Just a thought.

-Russ

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