[X4U] Dual Core intels vs. PowerPC's

Zane H. Healy healyzh at aracnet.com
Wed Jan 11 07:59:05 PST 2006


At 7:48 AM -0800 1/11/06, Crandon David wrote:
>So the new dual core Intel chips are 2-4 times faster than  the 
>PowerPC chips they replaced of approximately the same speed. What 
>I'd like to know is how fast are the Intel dual core chips compared 
>with the soon to depart PowerPC dual core chips.

Is there anything that shows how much faster the PPC dual core chips 
are compared to the 2.1Ghz G5 iMac?

			Zane


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