With this week's benchmark testing, we've compared the iMac G5 1.8GHz against itself with 3 different memory configurations. Everybody knows that adding memory to your computer will make it run faster, but how much faster?
When the iMac G5 was announced, there was a really good question posed by a lot of customers. Since this is the first G5 that does not require matched pairs of memory to run, would it be faster with matched memory or not? Theoretically, yes, it should. Because of the way that the comptuer addressed memory, it would form a 128-bit data path instead of a 64-bit data path. Just like Pontiac's advertisements show about thier cars, Wider is Better. Especially in this case, since a wider data path (128-bit) would be able to get more data to and from the processor.
So, we've taken a couple of common configurations and tested them with some of the more obvious tests. Most revealing, of course, is the Photoshop testing. That makes perfect sense because it's the only test to really take full advantage of all of the memory in the computer at the time of these tests. But I really did not expect the maxed out, matched memory system to dominate ALL of the tests as it did. Check out the scores and you'll se what I mean.
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