Will new iMac beat old Powermac???

I've had my powermac dual G5 1.8 since 2004 and am thinking of uprading to a new high-end intel-iMac with leopard.
My main reasons are that my Mac has become really sluggish of late especially with multiple application open and viewing video.
I mostly use my computer for photoshop, watching video and the internet.
I have 512MB ram and a dual 1.8GHZ CPU, the new imac i''m interested in is a 2.8GHZ dual core processor and 2GB RAM, will this give me enough power and performance to not have the beachball all the time when running multiple applications or is a powermac, even an old one, still a faster machine that an iMac??
also does dual 1.8ghz mean two 1.8ghx chips or 1.8 in total, because it it's 2 1.8ghz chips then wouldn't that still be faster (combined) than the new iMac, i'm confused???

My main reasons are that my Mac has become really sluggish of late especially with multiple application open and viewing video. I mostly use my computer for photoshop, watching video and the internet. I have 512MB ram
That's the problem. That is not much over the minimum RAM required for Tiger. You should have at least 2GB RAM. Also, be sure there is plenty of space on your hard drive.
also does dual 1.8ghz mean two 1.8ghx chips or 1.8 in total, because it it's 2 1.8ghz chips then wouldn't that still be faster (combined) than the new iMac, i'm confused???
You have two 1.8 GHz processors. The Intel iMac also has two processors, but they are on one chip. Each processor is 2.0 to 2.8 GHz, depending on which model iMac you get. You should get it with 4 GB RAM.

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Thanks to both of you for your help with this interesting problem!
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Today I'm running the virgin installation (now 16 hours into the test) to see if I can crack the 37 hour barrier. If I make it to two full days, I'll be pretty confident that I must still be having software issues with my standard startup configuration. Of course, I'm not currently running any non-Apple software, and there's no legacy stuff on this startup partition, other than the music and photos I copied over from my data partition for sharing over the network at home. I'm also foregoing Indigo 2 controlling stuff around the house, and the great SereneSaver Quicktime movies playing soothing videos (beach scenes, peaceful lakes, mountain vistas, etc. with background sounds) as my Desktop background.
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My question is whether anyone else with a simpler configuration, and no obvious video issues (as confirmed by Software Update not offering the video firmware update), is experiencing any spontaneous freezes?
At this point, it's still premature to think I have a hardware issue, but if I do it should manifest itself with this basic, virgin installation.
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