decent performance from G4 Macs?

[David van der Spoel]

On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Jarrod Smith wrote:

>> is it just that the performance Apple brags about is strictly
>> in-cache, and/or when doing something ah specialized like 
>> single-precision SIMD (altivec/velocity engine)?
>
>I've been making a foray into OS X on G4 hardware recently.  After having
>compiled and benchmarked a couple of our compute-intensive codes, I have
>wondered the same thing...
>
>So far double-precision floating point has not impressed me in the least
>on the G4.

We have done some single precision (gcc with altivec code) tests using
our molecular dynamics code GROMACS. The results are on

http://www.gromacs.org/benchmarks/single.php

the numbers are simulation time/real time, i.e. higher is better. The G4
is slightly slower than an Athlon (w 3DNow)/P3 (w SSE) at the same clock.
Havent't tested double precision yet.


Groeten, David.
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