Aha! 970's! compared to G4

[Kurt Appling]

re; in your opinion,can you tell yet if the new chips run any hotter or 
cooler than the G4 chips? my question is in thinking about eventual 
powerbook upgrades.


On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 11:14 PM, Mel wrote:

> Well all of this is rumor to start with, but yes, the new 970s will 
> provide a much needed speed boost, but it's too simplistic to say the 
> the OS will get a 2x boost from a 64 bit processor. Just having a 
> wider data and/or address path does not automatically generate a speed 
> boost. Things that benefit from Altivec (aka Velocity Engine) will 
> find gains from the OS being optimized for 64 bit operation as well. 
> What I am really looking forward to is the much faster front-side bus 
> and 8x AGP. Memory bandwidth has been a performance damper on the Mac 
> for a long time and you seldom hear much about it. Between a wider bus 
> path and much faster bus speed, Quartz should feel much snappier. The 
> 8x AGP will allow the Mac to generate the kind of video frame rates 
> that PC users can get.
> If you want a very thorough look at the 970, go to Ars Technica, Part 
> 1 here: http://arstechnica.com/cpu/02q2/ppc970/ppc970-1.html and Part 
> 2 here: http://arstechnica.com/cpu/03q1/ppc970/ppc970-0.html
> Hannibal does a great job and will tell you more than you probably 
> want to know.
> Mel
>
> On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 07:30  PM, CJ Scaminaci wrote: