IBM dual-core 64bit G5

IBM YESTERDAY introduced a 64-bit, dual-core version of its PowerPC 970 (G5) processor at a shindig in Japan.

IBM said the chip - the 970MP - will clock at speeds from between 1.4 to 2.5GHz. and is aimed at "clients who desire a low-cost, high performance, 64-bit, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) capable system in a small package."

The fancy chippery is likely to be slipped into a Power Mac G5 before long and could well be the last blast IBM has on an Apple platform before all Macs have Intel inside them.

IBM says that each of the two 64-bit PowerPC 970MP cores has its own dedicated 1MB L2 cache, resulting in performance more than double that of the PowerPC 970FX.

And should you be doing nothing more than sending a few emails and reading the processor-friendly INQ, you could shut down one of the cores, placing it a 'doze' state and just use one.

The big company also announced low-power PowerPC 970FX chips that chew up 13W at 1.4 GHz and 16W at 1.6GHz under typical workloads.

IBM showed off its chippery at the Power Everywhere Forum 2005 in Japan, yesterday.
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Sweet, good for IMB and Apple, so I suppose PhotoShop will now be 4 times faster than a P4 instead of 2x in Apples little tests.

 

I thought thought that the G5s were very good, Apple's were very good for video editing for that reason. With Intel they've bought some extra heat from an old enemy. Talk about contraversial.

 

G5's are very good, assuming you have at least $2000 to blow not including a monitor, half decent video card, or more than 512Mb's or ram:x:, still wish I had one though.

 

apple was good for editing and stuff but it really isn't anymore. You take the same amount of money put into a dual g5 system and put it into a PC...PC will own it.

 

Too bad my dream Mac costs over $12,000. Thats the drawback of Apple, they're overpriced.

 

What would you're dream mac be? Dual 2.7Ghz G5's 6800GT, 8gigs of ram?

 

hahahahahha right ex

what socket do the IBM processors have?

 

No seriously, G5's can support up to 8gigs, the socket is Apples/IMB's own so I have no clue if they even have a traditional name like 939 or whatever but for $12,000 and knowing what www.apple.com (see for yourself) charges for ram it's the only way it'd rack up that kind of price.

 

yeah i kind of thought that it could be real, a dual xeon tyan can fit 16 gigs ECC

ECC but still... 16 gigs..

 

Man that would cost you, the thing is would it perform any better than one with 10gigs?

 

or really to think about it 2 gigs? idk much that demands that much except for high end server work.