"battle for the desktop" - pentium vs PowerPC - May 1994

[supernova777]

https://books.google.ca/books?id=MfbDrFwiARgC&pg=PA7&source=gbs_toc&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false

page 114

Flashback to May 1994!
The Intel Pentium 100Mhz was released in March of 1994.....
the cpu inside the chosen models of PowerPC's is the 601 which was released in October 1992
but the 8100/80 was released also in march of 1994...

to gauge how well PowerPC Sysems perform, we got our hands on three PowerPC macintosh systems, a 60mhz powermac 6100/60, a 66Mh power Macintosh 7100/66 and an 80Mhz Powermacintosh 8100/80 along with a motorla 68k powered Quadra 840AV for comparison.

the age old MAC vs PC battle! LOL comparing the Pentium 100 Mhz chip to the initial Nubus Power Macintosh _100 models..

so in these tests.. it looks like, testing it against the Pentium 100... the Pentium100 did score better on the tests! Im surprised!

[DieHard]

so in these tests.. it looks like, testing it against the Pentium 100... the Pentium100 did score better on the tests! Im surprised!

Yeah, but the Mac scored better in the "lack of malware" and the "adding peripherals" categories

[Knezzen]

Remember that most of the applications and even the operating system for the Mac back then still was emulated 68k code. Mac OS didn't really become mostly PowerPC native until version 8.

Remember Connectix Speed Doubler? It replaced the slow 68k emulated stuff in Mac OS with PowerPC native code to speed up the OS. So these benchmarks are quite misleading IMO.

[MacTron]

A couple of photoshop filters can't be considered a speed test at all.
Why then don't make a floating point test?
Furthermore the PPC platform (CPUs, motherboards and software)  became to bright with the introduction of the 604 and the Mac Os 8.
At this time (as in the 68k era) the Wintel platform seems to be from the stone age compared with Macintosh.

[supernova777]

A couple of photoshop filters can't be considered a speed test at all.
Why then don't make a floating point test?

pretty sure they did i just didnt feel like screengrabbing everything