In search for info on PPC cpus

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PowerPC have both drawbacks and and advantages compared to x86s, the main drawback being the price. Power consumption is usually a higher performance/power ratio, they are more suited for multi-tasking apps (in fact it's the x86 that have some flaws which come from backward compatibility) and much more powerful vector processing capabilities. AltiVec is still unmatched by other ISAs. Anyhow you could check www.arstechnica.com, they had some nice article on PowerPC vs x86.

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Refer to latest MacWorld’s PowerPC 970(Apple) vs Athon FX-51 (AlienWare)…

I had already saw those tests and sincerely:
- Première is a discontinued app under MacOS X so why bother benchmarking it?
- Who the heck plays Quake III today? Why not trying UT2003 or something more recent?
- Word benchmarks? They must be kidding...
- Photoshop shows the Dual G5 and the Dual Opteron with roughly the same performance (they are probably both bandwidth bottlenecked)

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Note that Adobe Premiere is not optimised on AMD64 i.e. needs Windows XP AMD64 Edition(currently in beta stage).

Both systems are running on legacy modes.

Actually the Mac has another problem, Première is running under Classic mode so they are basically benchmarking a discontinued app on a discontinued OS hosted on another OS. This said nobody will ever try a Première vs Final Cut Pro comparison simply because from a performance and feature set point of view FCP slaughters Première. That's why Adobe killed it, nobody would buy it anymore on the Mac platform. Unfortunately the page with the tests on Jet3D from Craig Hunter is down, it was a nice show off both for AltiVec and PowerPC in general in FP intensive apps.