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I have an 8GB G5 Quad with the 7800GT graphics card. I have recently bought a stock Mac Pro and added 1 GB Crucial RAM giving it 2GB RAM in total, with the stock 7300GT card.
Having installed PhaseOne's CaptureOne Pro (universal) on both machines, I set about Batch Processing 204 Canon 1Ds MKII RAW files into 16 bit TIFFS. No corrections were made, it was just a straight forward batch.
Results: 2GB Mac Pro: 204 RAW - 16 Bit TIFFS (@ 96MB each) total time: 35 mins 14 seconds.
8GB Powermac G5 Quad: 204 RAW - 16 Bit TIFFS (@96MB each) total time: 58 minutes 22 seconds.
Never thought I'd hear myself (well read myself saying/typing this) but that's over 23 minutes slower for the Quad G5 with 4 times as much memory as the Mac Pro! Mac Pro 1.7 times faster. When time is money. . .need I say more?
Both machines were started up, nothing running other than whatever runs after start up in the background, nothing launched other than Capture One Pro. The files used were located in folders on the internal HD supplied with the machines (both have 250GB's: MP: Seagate, Quad G5: WD)
The Mac Pro toasted the G5 Quad - I'm gutted. Anyone want to buy a G5 Quad? lol
What's your experience with the Mac Pro?

As it is, most apps don't use 4 cores, never mind 8.
I'm lucky to see most apps use TWO cores effectively,
never mind 4 now. I see a precious few apps
benefiting from 8-core until developers start
thinking in a more multithreaded multicore way.
This problem is much much worse in the Windows world,
where aside from server apps multi cpu/core was very
uncommon in the consumer market.
Well said. Software engineers can do SO much with Multcore/cpu configs, but it's time and resources, and LOTS of code optimizing.
On the x86, at least it's now got everyone's full (well almost full) attention.
Pro app side will keep getting better. Cross platform software companies (adobe,etc) can focus more on x86 optimization without the worry about time/resources for optimizing on a powerpc as well. Can't wait for 10.5!

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