It's a better processor, in the way of datapaths and overall internal data through-put. If you look at the actual chip design of G5 compared to a P4, P4 Xeon, Itanium, Itanium2. If you look at it from the view point as to which the designers were looking, the "g5" err PPC 970 was brilliant when it debuted.Īctually, we all went to Apple because of the OS (to move away from Windows), the hardware design was just an added bonus. MIPS is cool, and has its uses, so does the PPC 970.
Speaking purely on a personal opinion, I actually prefer the PPC 970 chip better than mips. It seems that Intel's latest approach is to actually embed two dies on a single package, of which their yields should be alot greater (each die will only be half the size of a 'regular' dual core, whereby they'll have far better yield as a defect will only affect 1/2 a CPU's die rather than the whole CPU die)
Indeed, it's interesting to see how companies are manufacturing their multi-core processors. PowerPC is generally used for higher performance applications If we really want to delve into embedded processors, MIPS by far has the embedded processor market. The PowerPC processors you talk of, are less General Purpose processors, they're more specific Embedded processors, or microcontrollers used for a specific task. When I said General use, I mean General Purpose processors, ie those used in PCs.
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