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G5 vs. PS3 and this guy added some Xeon benchmarks they also had. bZip and JPEG seemed like the most common and useful of the benchmarks so here they are. Check out their site for the rest.
bzip2 Compress (multi-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3 - 124.1
Power Mac G5 - 168.4
Xeon 5160 - 1194.4
bzip2 Decompress (multi-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3 - 99.5
Power Mac G5 - 133.1
Xeon 5160 - 1353.3
JPEG Compress (multi-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3 - 94.8
Power Mac G5 - 103.0
Xeon 5160 - 877.6
JPEG Decompress (multi-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3 - 72.9
Power Mac G5 - 119.2
Xeon 5160 - 788.9
So basically in performance the PS3 processor usually isn't going to be as good as a THREE AND A HALF YEAR OLD budget G5 processor. The PS3 is probably about equal to a G4 processor at most general tasks. Kind of pathetic after all the hype Sony made about it before it came out.
It would get totally crushed by a Quad core processor."
source1 www.geekpatrol.ca/2006/11/playstation-3-performance/
source2 forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/kenstfield-Cell-ftopict235897.html source
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