clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 04.07.2014 03:34, schrieb Anthony D. Baye:
>
> > Note: Parse time on the newer machine was faster by almost a whole second, but
> > Trace time was a bit more than twice as long.
> >
> > Any ideas why this might be?
>
> Maybe because the G5 uses an entirely different processor architecture? ;-)
>
> The IBM PowerPC architecture originates in the high performance
> computing sector, where high precision floating point number crunching
> is daily business, and the typical occupation of a CPU is to do just that.
>
> The Intel x64 architecture originates in the personal computing sector,
> where daily business means office work, internet browsing and gaming,
> and the typical occupation of a CPU is to wait for other system
> components (most notably memory).

Here are benchmarks from 2005 running Povray 3.6, PowerPC 970 @ 2.5 GHz vs.
Opteron 240 (2.4 GHz). The Opteron from back then easily beats the 970.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/1702/5

There's something not quite right with OP's setup.

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