The 2.5GHz Power Mac G5 Quad Creative Workflow Benchmark

Pfeiffer Report • Benchmark AnalysisThe 2.5GHz Power Mac G5 QuadCreative Workflow BenchmarkPerformance, productivity, and multitasking with the Power Mac G5 and Mac OS X TigerA big step for the Power Mac platform Major FindingsThe 2.5GHz Power Mac G5 Quad is an important iteration of the Power Mac • The 2.5GHz Power Mac G5 Quad shows product line: While the Macintosh platform has offered dual processor significant performance and productivity computers for many years, the introduction of professional models offering effec- increases over older Power Mac models.tively four central processing units had been eagerly awaited by power users ever since IBM announced a dual-core PowerPC chip. • Multitasking and multiprocessing performance of the new 2.5GHz Power Mac There is nothing surprising to this: The Macintosh is the platform of choice G5 Quad is up to three times faster than in many of the most demanding segments of computing, such as digital video, previous models.graphic design and publishing, digital photography, as well as professional music production, and Apple’s Mac OS X Tiger provides the necessary operating sys- • The 2.5GHz Power Mac G5 Quad is almost tem services to fully exploit every facet of the new architecture. up to three times faster than the dual 1.42GHz Power Macintosh G4 performing Multitasking is moving center stage certain Photoshop functions.• Spotlight search technology combined with A number of key Macintosh applications such as ...