PowerMac G5 dual-2.5 GHz

par Gui92 - 17/08/2004

2 months after the purchase order I finally received the new G5. Here are some pictures and benchmarks !

Erratum
ATTENTION : due to bad Energy Saver settings, my first results were inaccurate. The following values have been updated.

XBench Results

The results are pretty much self explanatory for a stock machine just out of the box
results file (xml)

Altivec Fractal Carbon
16897 MFlops

CineBench G5
CINEBENCH 2003 v1
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Tester : gui92
Processor : Power Mac G5 DP 2.5
MHz : 2500
Number of CPUs : 2
Operating System : Mac OS X 10.3.5
Graphics Card : Radeon 9600XT
Resolution : 1280*1024
Color Depth : 32 bits
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Rendering (Single CPU): 357 CB-CPU
Rendering (Multiple CPU): 628 CB-CPU
Multiprocessor Speedup: 1.76
Shading (CINEMA 4D) : 338 CB-GFX
Shading (OpenGL Software Lighting) : 949 CB-GFX
Shading (OpenGL Hardware Lighting) : 1614 CB-GFX
OpenGL Speedup: 4.77
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OpenMark
hardware detected:
cpu family: 0x139
cpu type: 0x13c
opengl vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
opengl renderer: ATI Radeon 9600 OpenGL Engine
opengl version: 1.5 ATI-1.3.28
test parms:
surface 1280x1024 32bpp
textures: on
lighting: on
keep in sync: off
FPS 9.0 280908 triangles
final score: 284

Quake 3
170 fps (demo standard 1280*1024 32 bits détails maximums)

boot sequence video

noise level at full load
Talking about noise level, the G5 can be extrememly noisy as soon as the CPUs start to work, but after that it comes back down to a quiet level very fast, and in everyday use it's far more quiet that my silenced G4 Digital Audio.