With Debian and Ubuntu dropping 32-bit PowerPC support in their future releases, you may be curious how the older PowerPC hardware compares to Intel's modern x86 processors if you are wishing to switchover. Here are some benchmarks.

Apple Power Mac G5 - tower - PPC G5 2.7 GHz - 512 MB - 250 GB - Italian overview and full product specs on CNET. May 14, 2015 There’s only one hitch: the free version of Geekbench 3 only runs older (“32-bit”) benchmarks on your Mac; to see the superior performance you’d get from newer (“64-bit”) apps, you. Oct 19, 2005 LightWave 3D renders animation up to 59 percent faster on the Power Mac G5 Quad when compared with the Dual Processor 2.7 GHz Power Mac G5; and The scientific benchmark Bioinformatics Benchmark System (BBS version 3) completes a comparison of genomic sequences up to 39 percent faster on the Power Mac G5 Quad when compared with the Dual. The Geekbench 2.0 benchmark provides 32-bit performance results for all models and 64-bit performance results for PowerPC G5-based systems, too (in parenthesis when available). Higher numbers are better. Geekbench results also are provided on EveryMac.com's specs pages for G3 and newer Macs and within the Ultimate Mac Comparison feature. Apple's G5 Power Mac versus Pentium 4, Dual Xeon, and Dual Athlon: Updated September 27th, 2004 by rob-ART morgan, mad scientist. February 18th, 2005 - Check out our NEWEST TEST PAGE comparing the Dual Xeon 3.4GHz, Dual Opteron 252 (2.6GHz), Athlon FX55 (2.6GHz), and G5/2.5GHz Power Mac. This is article is technically obsolete but we're leaving it up in case you are interested.

A Phoronix reader has provided comparison benchmarks of his PowerMac G5 to our recent Intel Kabylake CPU benchmarks and other recent x86 CPU tests. His PowerMac G5 v2 with the PPC970 is dual-core and clocks up to 2.0GHz. This Apple computer has 2GB of RAM, NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra graphics, and was running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with the Linux 4.4 kernel and GCC 5.4 compiler.
I, unfortunately, have no physical access to any PowerPC hardware at all. Fortunately, thanks to Phoronix reader Alexandre Couture we have these comparison data points to my recent Intel Linux CPU tests. With all of the tests done via the Phoronix Test Suite and centralized on OpenBenchmarking.org, it makes for easy independent yet reproducible and automated comparisons.

Mac G5 Ppc Benchmark Software Free

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The PowerMac G5 performance is incredibly poor compared to modern Intel x86 CPUs.

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This PowerMac7,2 model dates back to 2004 and was great back in the day... Now it won't even work with future Ubuntu/Debian releases.

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So even switching over to a $40 Kabylake Celeron CPU will be a huge upgrade in performance.

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Or a sub-$100 Pentium CPU is also a big upgrade if not wanting to switch to a Core CPU.

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Mac G5 Ppc Benchmark Software Windows 7

Thanks to Alexandre for sending in these results showing how far performance has come since ~2004 with Apple PowerPC hardware. Unfortunately with no access to any PowerPC hardware, I'm not able to deliver any results showing how modern POWER hardware is performing. Those wishing to see more of these older PowerMac comparison results to Intel x86 CPUs can visit this OpenBenchmarking.org result file.