Apple Power Mac G5 (Late 2005) - Manual (Page 25)

25 Technology Overview
Power Mac G5
Scientifi c analysis performance
To demonstrate the performance advantages of the Power Mac G5 Quad for processor-
intensive scientifi c analysis, Apple used Bioinformatics Benchmark System version 3
(or BBSv3), an Xcode development test, and the MathematicaMark5.2 benchmark built
into Mathematica.
Bioinformatics Benchmark System (BBSv3) results
Multiple-processor test summary
Power Mac G5 Quad 2.5GHz 39% faster
Dual 2.7GHz Power Mac G5
Percent faster than the previous model
Baseline
The Power Mac G5 Quad performed the BBSv3 multiple-processor test—based on HMMER and
BLAST, using current data sets, from the bioinformatics community—39 percent faster than the
dual 2.7GHz Power Mac G5.*
Xcode 2.1 results
Build project
Power Mac G5 Quad 2.5GHz 76% faster
Dual 2.7GHz Power Mac G5
Percent faster than the previous model
Baseline
The Power Mac G5 Quad completed an Xcode project build 76 percent faster than the dual
2.7GHz Power Mac G5.*
Mathematica 5.2 results
MathematicaMark5.2
Baseline
Power Mac G5 Quad 2.5GHz 22% faster
Dual 2.7GHz Power Mac G5
Percent faster than the previous model
Using the MathematicaMark5.2 benchmark, the Power Mac G5 Quad outperformed the dual
2.7GHz Power Mac G5 by 22 percent.*
* Testing conducted by Apple in September 2005 using preproduction 2.5GHz Power Mac G5 Quad units; all other systems were
shipping units. Bioinformatics Benchmark System test results were based on BBSv3, available at www.scalableinformatics.com,
using July 2005 FASTA databases; NCBI version 2.2.11 BLAST, available at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast; and HMMER version 2.3.2,
available at hmmer.wustl.edu.