Only certain operations were sped up by the vector extensions. People on PC forums would post their "jobsmarks" showing they beat Apple, the G4 was sorta a disa

Only certain operations were sped up by the vector extensions. People on PC forums would post their "jobsmarks" showing they beat Apple, the G4 was sorta a disaster. The replies are ranting about general software bloat, but I'd bet the image processing parts of photoshop are still highly optimized.