[ale] g3 vs g4 vs g5

Jay Finch retief at larp.com
Fri Jun 27 14:48:18 EDT 2003


The G5 is a 64-bit Processor. (CPU)

Currently the G3, G4, Pentium and Athlon are all 32-bit processors. (CPU)

The graphics card(s) have nothing to do with the CPU. :~)

Cheers!
Jay

> ok wait here in what documents i can find of the g5 its bragging about
> being 64 bit like thats an upgrade and its talking about the 128 bit
> velocity engine, i thought the g4 and g3 were 128 bit chips? is the g5 a
> downgrade? i wish they were a little more specific. they never said the
> g4's were 32 bit chips with 128 bit velocity engine they just said the g4
> is 128 bit and has a velocity engine, so if thats so then they have
> stepped the chip down and upped the hertz so its probably not much
> different in performance? so whats the deal? whats the low down on the
> g3/4/5 ? is there a site that talks more of this? mac doesnt exactly tell
> much about older chips atleast not from what i can find :( thanks for any
> help
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