[G4] Which is faster, a dual 450 mHz, or a single 800 Mhz?

[Eric Smith]

Ridiculous answer. We know what he meant.

As James already said, it really depends on how your apps utilize
the single vs. dual processor. But as a measurement of pure cpu
power, one geekbench report gave the Gigabit Ethernet dual 500 MHz
a score of 459, and the Quicksilver single 800 MHz a score of 424.
In other words, pretty darn close.

(Current Mac Pros get scores well above 5000, some above 8000.)

http://www.primatelabs.ca/blog/2008/06/mac-performance-june-2008/

Eric S.

Doug McNutt wrote:
> At 14:55 -0500 11/30/09, Donald Drennan wrote:
> Which is faster, a dual 450 mHz, or a single 800 Mhz?
> 
> Sorry about pedantry but this is really a terrible example of usage and this time I just can't keep quiet.
> 
> 450 millihertz is almost 2 billion times slower than 800 megahertz.
> 
> And I really don't know what a hz is. Perhaps it's instructions per second which isn't always the same as the clock frequency.
> 
> <http://www.physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html>
> <http://www.physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html>
> 
> And k means kilo, a factor of 1000.
> K is a unit of temperature as in "My Wi-fi receiver has a noise figure of 50K".
> Ki, kibi,is a binary oriented unit that means 1024 or 2^10 or 3FF+1
> Mi, mebi, is another one that means 1024^2 or 2^20 or FFFFF+1
> 
> B for byte - 8 bits - and b for bit are acceptable these days unless you're also using bells as in dB for decibel, a logarithmic unit often used to describe sound pressure.
> 
> The world will be better off if everyone uses units correctly. If you're not sure spell them out.
>