Comment Re:clock rate (Score 1) 444
Have you ever
looked at the fine print in PPC benchmarking from apple? 98% of the time it's photoshop. Why? Because there is a special
instruction set (Altivec) that speeds up some operations significantly...
No matter how much Apple benchmarks Photoshop, it's still not a significant metric of overall system performance.
So What? PhotoShop and other apps that use AltiVec acceleration are the applications most likely to use and need a lot of processing power. They are also the applications that Mac Users make there money on and are most sensitive about the performance of. Office productivity apps and text editors hardly need to be run on high performance applications but FinalCut Pro, Photoshop, Premiere, Avid, etc. etc. etc. do - it is perfectly valid to use applications of that type, the ones Mac users most care about, as the best benchmarks of system performance.
They don't quote industry-standard SPEC numbers. STREAM?
And I have never billed a client for running SPEC or STREAM benchmarks on my computer. My computers performance on those benchmarks is only tenuously related to my computing needs - Photoshop benchmarks on the other hand have a direct 1:1 relationship to my productivity and is perhaps the ONLY benchmark that really matters to the target market for the PowerMac G4.
So What? PhotoShop and other apps that use AltiVec acceleration are the applications most likely to use and need a lot of processing power. They are also the applications that Mac Users make there money on and are most sensitive about the performance of. Office productivity apps and text editors hardly need to be run on high performance applications but FinalCut Pro, Photoshop, Premiere, Avid, etc. etc. etc. do - it is perfectly valid to use applications of that type, the ones Mac users most care about, as the best benchmarks of system performance.
They don't quote industry-standard SPEC numbers. STREAM?
And I have never billed a client for running SPEC or STREAM benchmarks on my computer. My computers performance on those benchmarks is only tenuously related to my computing needs - Photoshop benchmarks on the other hand have a direct 1:1 relationship to my productivity and is perhaps the ONLY benchmark that really matters to the target market for the PowerMac G4.
