Color is faster on slower machine. Is it Leopard?

So, maybe I'm jumping to conclusions here, but let me lay the facts out. I rendered the same material in Color on two different machines. One: a dual 2.3 Ghz G5 with 3GB of RAM. And the other: a dual 2.0Ghz G5 with 1.5GB of RAM. Both have the same Radeon graphics card, though the card in the 2.0 is one firmware revision older. Neither are dual core, just dual processor. The 2.3 is connected to the RAID directly and the 2.0 shares that connection via a network connection.
BUT, the 2.0 is at least twice as fast at rendering and playback in color.
My conclusion: The 2.3 is running Tiger. The 2.0 is running leopard. Has anyone else experienced this kind of speed boost with the new OS? If so, I should probably load it on my other machines.

I posted my similar experience on the Color mailing-list with Leopard drastically improving rendering performance when I upgraded to Leopard:
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/ColorList/message/702
I'd guess that the performance boost has more to do with optimized GPU drivers under Leopard than it does with any CPU optimization.

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