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  Power Mac G5 Benchmarks: Dual-core’s strong showing – Link to test results

  Posted by Mitchji on October 25, 2005 at 5:56 pm

  Hi,

  An excerpt of the article is below. The full article with the test results is here:
  https://www.macworld.com/news/2005/10/25/dualcorebenchmarks/index.php

  There appears to be no performance penalty for using dual-core processors instead of two single-core processors with the same clock speed, Macworld Lab has concluded after preliminary testing of the dual-core Power Mac G5s released by Apple a week ago.

  The latest Power Macs ship with dual-core 2.0GHz and 2.3GHz PowerPC G5 processors, as opposed to the two single-core chips in the preceding models. Apple also added faster DDR2 RAM and PCI Express graphics cards to the new models, replacing DDR memory and AGP graphics cards. That change helped the new Power Macs edge past their respective predecessors with similar clock speeds.

  The dual-core 2.3GHz Power Mac fared better than a single-core dual-processor 2.3GHz model in six of our seven tests. In the seventh

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