Geeks record PS3’s A-OK performance
Are you having sleepless nights already playing Resistance? Or are you still trying to install Fedora Core 5? We know you can’t get your hands off your new PlayStation 3 and so the guys over at online site GeekPatrol. Being the, well, geeks that they are, GeekPatrol wasn’t content with just playing or exploring the PSP-like XMB of the console.
In case you’re wondering what are they up to, be informed that they just managed to get a beta version Geekbench for Linux PPC and compared PS3’s performance against one of the first Power Mac G5. The setup is as follows:
PlayStation 3: Cell Broadband Engine @ 3.2GHz, 256 MB RAM, Fedora Core 5, Geekbench 2006 (Build 243)
Power Mac G5: PowerPC G5 @ 1.6GHz, 1280 MB RAM, Fedora Core 4, Geekbench 2006 (Build 243)
A PowerMac G5 1.6GHz running Mac OS X was used as the metrics for the experiment, meaning that setup will yield a score of 100 when measured. Power Mac G5 got a score of 106.9 while the PS3 got 105.2. We are then suddenly reminded of earlier comments that the PS3 is actually a stripped down PowerPC-based like current Apple chips. Judging from the numbers, it seems that the console is indeed A-OK. Anyway, here are the rest of the results of the experiment:
Integer Performance
Emulate 6502 (single-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 42.1
Power Mac G5: 73.9
Emulate 6502 (multi-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 57.3
Power Mac G5: 73.8
Blowfish (single-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 118.7
Power Mac G5: 107.0
Blowfish (multi-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 165.6
Power Mac G5: 107.0
See the rest after the jump!
Are you having sleepless nights already playing Resistance? Or are you still trying to install Fedora Core 5? We know you can’t get your hands off your new PlayStation 3 and so the guys over at online site GeekPatrol. Being the, well, geeks that they are, GeekPatrol wasn’t content with just playing or exploring the PSP-like XMB of the console.
In case you’re wondering what are they up to, be informed that they just managed to get a beta version Geekbench for Linux PPC and compared PS3’s performance against one of the first Power Mac G5. The setup is as follows:
PlayStation 3: Cell Broadband Engine @ 3.2GHz, 256 MB RAM, Fedora Core 5, Geekbench 2006 (Build 243)
Power Mac G5: PowerPC G5 @ 1.6GHz, 1280 MB RAM, Fedora Core 4, Geekbench 2006 (Build 243)
A PowerMac G5 1.6GHz running Mac OS X was used as the metrics for the experiment, meaning that setup will yield a score of 100 when measured. Power Mac G5 got a score of 106.9 while the PS3 got 105.2. We are then suddenly reminded of earlier comments that the PS3 is actually a stripped down PowerPC-based like current Apple chips. Judging from the numbers, it seems that the console is indeed A-OK. Anyway, here are the rest of the results of the experiment:
Integer Performance
Emulate 6502 (single-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 42.1
Power Mac G5: 73.9
Emulate 6502 (multi-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 57.3
Power Mac G5: 73.8
Blowfish (single-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 118.7
Power Mac G5: 107.0
Blowfish (multi-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 165.6
Power Mac G5: 107.0
bzip2 Compress (single-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 89.8
Power Mac G5: 162.8
bzip2 Compress (multi-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 124.1
Power Mac G5: 168.4
bzip2 Decompress (single-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 76.6
Power Mac G5: 129.9
bzip2 Decompress (multi-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 99.5
Power Mac G5: 133.1
Floating Point Performance
Mandelbrot (single-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 49.0
Power Mac G5: 100.0
Mandelbrot (multi-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 72.1
Power Mac G5: 100.0
Dot Product (single-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 120.0
Power Mac G5: 100.8
Dot Product (multi-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 119.3
Power Mac G5: 100.3
JPEG Compress (single-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 70.7
Power Mac G5: 103.0
JPEG Compress (multi-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 94.8
Power Mac G5: 103.0
JPEG Decompress (single-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 61.6
Power Mac G5: 119.0
JPEG Decompress (multi-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 72.9
Power Mac G5: 119.2
Memory Performance
Read Sequential (single-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 51.9
Power Mac G5: 116.7
Read Sequential (multi-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 56.9
Power Mac G5: 116.0
Write Sequential (single-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 194.6
Power Mac G5: 104.7
Write Sequential (multi-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 191.4
Power Mac G5: 112.7
Stdlib Allocate (single-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 43.4
Power Mac G5: 56.4
Stdlib Allocate (multi-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 51.2
Power Mac G5: 55.6
Stdlib Write (single-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 331.5
Power Mac G5: 92.7
Stdlib Write (multi-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 365.9
Power Mac G5: 94.7
Stdlib Copy (single-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 64.5
Power Mac G5: 63.5
Stdlib Copy (multi-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 102.1
Power Mac G5: 72.7
Stream Performance
Stream Copy (single-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 89.7
Power Mac G5: 114.1
Stream Copy (multi-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 109.9
Power Mac G5: 111.8
Stream Scale (single-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 69.2
Power Mac G5: 118.3
Stream Scale (multi-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 101.4
Power Mac G5: 120.1
Stream Add (single-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 62.6
Power Mac G5: 123.0
Stream Add (multi-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 93.2
Power Mac G5: 118.0
Stream Triad (single-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 62.7
Power Mac G5: 122.8
Stream Triad (multi-threaded scalar)
PlayStation 3: 102.2
Power Mac G5: 118.6
Via GeekPatrol
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