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Name: Abacab
Date: March 18, 2003 at 15:17:22 Pacific
OS: Mac OS 8.1
CPU/Ram: Basilisk II
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I want to buy an old PPC mac, I found a PPC 6500 (603e cpu) running at 250 Mhz and a PPC 7600 (604 cpu) running at 132Mhz. I know that the 604 cpu is better than 603 line, but wich of those systems is faster? And what does a 603e 250Mhz cpu equals to an intel cpu?



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Name: the pickle
Date: March 18, 2003 at 16:07:24 Pacific
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The 6500 will kick the 7600's ass.

The 7600 is much more cheaply upgradeable to a G3 or G4 if that's your cup of tea, though.

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Name: Abacab
Date: March 18, 2003 at 18:55:41 Pacific
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Do you know of a site that compares mac cpu to another, that kind of stuff meanwhile i'll take a look on tha web...


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Name: the pickle
Date: March 18, 2003 at 19:25:34 Pacific
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Unless the clock speeds are similar, the comparison of one Mac CPU to another isn't particularly valid at *any* level. Why not? I could write a small thesis on why not, but the short of it is that the differences are minimal enough that well-written, general-purpose code will be basically identical in speed on *any* CPU at a given clock rate*.

If you're going to be doing a lot of specialty stuff (heavy FPU, Altivec-optimised code, that sort of thing), then I'd say something like a 604 or G4, respectively, would be "better" at maybe as little as 1/2 to 2/3 the clock speed of a similar 603 or G3, respectively.

* The major exception I can think of is the transition from the 68030 to the 68040, where even the FPU-less 68040 will make a faster FPU-equipped 68030 system eat its dust.

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