Apple M9592LL Technology Overview - Page 25

Technology Overview 25 Power Mac G5 Scientific analysis performance To demonstrate the performance advantages of the Power Mac G5 Quad for processorintensive scientific 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 Baseline Percent faster than the previous model 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 Baseline Percent faster than the previous model 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 Power Mac G5 Quad 2.5GHz 22% faster Dual 2.7GHz Power Mac G5 Baseline 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.