aRt's slow ppc example

[aRt]

1.67Mhz G4 powerbook. 1 gig ram


http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc2=168050

[nVidia_user]

1.67Mhz G4 powerbook. 1 gig ram


http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc2=168050

You have to love that 1.67MHz of power there man ;)

[microtrash]

One thing is sure ! At 1.67Mhz, the G4 dissipate less than 0.05W and the powerbook's battery will last for month before going out of charge... maybe just enought to see powerbook boot :D

[consolation]

You have to love that 1.67MHz of power there man ;)

If you look at the results the CPU "power" is quite respectable, it's benching about the same as a P4@3GHz. It's the slow memory sub-system that drags the score down. Good old G4, a much undervalued CPU imho.

[zulu.walker]

I wonder why the memory benches so low, isn't that supposed to be DDR? Or just plain ol' SDRAM?

I agree that the CPU still crunches well compared to other hacks, and the memory and HD test really hurt the total score.

I would like to see how your "slow" G4 PB works with Geekbench, I'd bet you'll get much more accurate results.

[consolation]

It's PC2700 DDR in single channel.

[Azurael]

Yep, and the system bus isn't DDR, so it's only as useful as SDR at 167MHz. The G4 would probably be faster than the G5 for a lot of tasks at the same clock if it had received a newer bus architecture within its lifetime :(