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I remember the whole 'megahurtz myth' being a thing at around that time. Apple swore blind that its 1.4 GHz G4 machines were comparable to an equivalent, far hi
by azalemeth 5y ago
I remember the whole 'megahurtz myth' being a thing at around that time. Apple swore blind that its 1.4 GHz G4 machines were comparable to an equivalent, far higher clock speed P4. I didn't know about pipelining, OOE, and vector extensions to be able to judge that at the time. Was it true? The P4 was a very limited, long pipelined chip, but I don't know what the G4 was actually like in comparison.
One thing that I do remember about those machines is that they were massively memory bandwidth limited though, and iirc took PC100 ram at a time when everyone else had PC166 at least...
- Synaesthesia 5y agoYes a G4 was quite a bit faster than a P4 clock for clock, especially on floating point and vector operations and used quite little power too. You can go watch the annual videos where they show photoshop benchmarks running faster on the G3, G4 and G5s. But Intel did take the lead on occasion and kept up mostly. XP also felt faster in UI than early Mac OS X versions, although it did more and improved later on.