The 2.5GHz Power Mac G5 Benchmark Project

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Benchmark Report
The 2.5GHz Power Mac G5
Benchmark Project
Performance and productivity comparison of the
dual processor 2.5GHz Power Mac G5
with the 450MHz Power Mac G3 and the 733MHz Power Mac G4.
Client: Apple Computer
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Table of Contents
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About the Benchmark Project .......................................................................... 5
Benchmark Overview ............................................................................................................6
Hardware and Configuration: Details .......................................................................................6
About the Performance Benchmarks ........................................................................................7
System Performance Benchmarks: Details .................................................................................8
Application Performance Benchmarks ......................................................................................8
Network/Server Performance Benchmarks 9
Workflow Integration Benchmarks (InDesign CS, QuarkXPress 6.1) .............................................9
Multiprocessing Benchmarks .................................................................................................10
System Performance Benchmarks ................................................................. 11
Complete Results System Performance Benchmarks...................................................................... 12
System Performance Benchmarks: Basic Tests
(Legacy Platform 256MB of RAM)............................................................................................. 13
(Legacy Platform 1GB of RAM) 14
System Performance Benchmarks: File Copy 15 ................................................................................................. 16
System Performance Benchmarks: File Open/Save
(Legacy Platform 256MB of RAM)............................................................................................. 17
(Legacy Platform 1GB of RAM) 18
Application Performance Benchmarks ........................................................... 19
Results: Adobe Photoshop Performance Benchmarks .................................................................... 20
Adobe Photoshop Benchmarks 50MB File
(Legacy Platform 256MB of RAM) 21
(Legacy Platform 1GB of RAM) ................................................................................................. 22
Adobe Photoshop Benchmarks 100MB File ............................................................................................. 23 24
Adobe Photoshop Benchmarks 200MB File
(Legacy Platform 256MB of RAM) 25
(Legacy Platform 1GB of RAM) 26
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Server Performance Benchmarks .................................................................. 27
Results: Server Performance Benchmarks ..................................................................................... 28
Workstation to Server File Copy Performance (Legacy Platform 256MB of RAM).......................... 29
Workstation to Server File Copy Performance
(Legacy Platform 1GB of RAM) ................................................................................................. 30
Server to Workstation File Copy Performance
(Legacy Platform 256MB of RAM)............................................................................................. 31 32
Server File Open/Save Performance 33
(Legacy Platform 1GB of RAM) ................................................................................................. 34
Workflow Integration Benchmarks ................................................................ 35
Results: Workflow Integration Benchmarks (Mac OS X)............................................................... 36
QuarkXPress Workflow: Photoshop Round-trip (Photoshop already launched)
(Legacy Platform 256MB of RAM)............................................................................................. 37
QuarkXPress Workflow: Photoshop Round-trip (including Photoshop launch) 38
QuarkXPress Workflow: Illustrator Round-trip 39
QuarkXPress Performance Preview Illustration/Create PDF File
(Legacy Platform 256MB of RAM) 40
InDesign Workflow: Photoshop Round-trip (Photoshop already launched) ............................................................................................. 41
InDesign Workflow: Photoshop Round-trip (including Photoshop launch) 42
InDesign Workflow: Illustrator RoundTrip
(Legacy Platform 256MB of RAM) 43
InDesign Performance Preview Complex Page/Create PDF File 44
QuarkXPress Workflow: Photoshop Round-trip (Photoshop already launched)
(Legacy Platform 1GB of RAM) ................................................................................................. 45
QuarkXPress Workflow: Photoshop Round-trip (including Photoshop launch) 46
QuarkXPress Workflow: Illustrator Round-trip 47
QuarkXPress Performance Preview Page/Create PDF File
(Legacy Platform 1GB of RAM) 48
InDesign Performance Photoshop Round-trip (Photoshop already launched) 49
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InDesign Performance Photoshop Round-trip (including Photoshop launch)
(Legacy Platform 1GB of RAM) ................................................................................................. 50
InDesign Performance Illustrator Round-trip 51
InDesign Performance Preview/Create PDF File 52
Multiprocessing Benchmarks ......................................................................... 53
Results Multiprocessing Benchmarks (2.5GHz Power Mac G5).................................................... 54
Multiprocessing Benchmarks (2.5GHz Power Mac G5): 2 Tasks .................................................. 55
Multiprocessing Benchmarks (2.5GHz Power Mac G5): 3 Tasks 56
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About the Benchmark Project
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Section: About the Benchmark Project
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1 Benchmark Overview
• This benchmark project was conducted by Pfeiffer Consulting for Apple Computer and
analyzes the performance and productivity of the dual 2.5GHz processor Power Mac G5
introduced in June 2004, as compared with the 450MHz Power Mac G3 and the 733MHz
Power Mac G4.
• The performance benchmarks included system performance, network/server perfor-
mance using Gigabit Ethernet and an Apple Xserve server, as well as application perfor-
mance benchmarks.
• Productivity benchmarks were conducted using a set of workflow integration measures,
executed with Adobe InDesign CS, Photoshop CS, Illustrator CS, Adobe Acrobat 6.0.1,
and QuarkXPress 6.1.
• Specific benchmarks were conducted to measure the impact of multiple processors on
productivity.
2 Hardware and Configuration: Details
2.1 Computers Tested
• 450MHz Power Mac G3
• 733MHz Power Mac G4
• Dual 2.5GHz Power Mac G5
2.2 Hardware Configuration
• Standard hardware configurations were used.
• All systems were equipped with the standard hard drives shipped with the computer.
• All hard drives were reformatted using a single partition before testing.
2.3 Memory Configurations
• The Power Mac G5 was tested equipped with 2GB of RAM.
• Legacy platforms were tested in two memory configurations: 256MB and 1GB of RAM.
2.4 System Software
All benchmarks were run on a standard, unmodified installation of Mac OS X 10.3.4.
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3 About the Performance Benchmarks
The performance benchmarks were conceived to measure pure performance increase in system oper-
ations as well as in some of the more power-hungry applications that are used in the design and pub-
lishing workflow, namely Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe Illustrator.
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