Originally posted by Taiwanze7
Its a damned fast machine, and IBM's PowerPC chips are insane. However, I'd doubt that'll touch an 8-way Opteron or 128-way SGI Origin. Other thing was that Apple didn't include SSE2 for Intel.... *way to go*
Actually, the IBM Power4 chip, which the PPC970(G5) is based off of, is the highest scoring processor in the SPEC database.
And the G5 AltiVec vector unit is far superior to the SSE2 Intel implementation,,,