[geeks] Yeah, the G4 is faster...

[Bill Bradford]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 10:02:14PM -0700, Peter L. Wargo wrote:
> Just reflecting on the speed increase of the G4... I ran the altivec
> fractal program on both my 366MHz iBook (w/power saving off) and the
> 500MHz G4...
> The iBook hit 225Mflops, not bad compared to a Cray-1.  That was 366MHz.
> So, you would expect a 500Mhz G3 to hit about 300-325 or so.
> The G4 500 hit just under 1.7 Gigaflops.

1.4 megaflops on this 450Mhz G4 (cube).

Now if OS X 10.1 will just be faster... 8-)

I found that turning off font antialiasing with tinkertool speeds
things up a bit.  I've got the normal ATI Rage pro 128 card.

bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX