Is this what Apple is claiming 3419

Edwin

*up* to 2x faster. Learn to read, clown.

Of course, if you restate it correctly to reflect the actual reality of the situation.

When the G5 first came out, the dual Xeon Dell from 2003 had a IIRC 533mhz *shared* FSB, while the dual 2.0Ghz G5 had *dual* 1Ghz independent FSBs.

The G5 was a vastly superior architecture over the Xeons of the day; you may note that AMD too was able to kick Intel's butt in this area with their Opteron DP boxes, and that Apple steered clear of benchmarking their offerings against AMD boxes.

But the Intel Empire has struck back, and with the Blackford chipset has pulled out the stops to match the system architecture that IBM had back in 2003. The latest Xeons have FB-DRAM, which is a serial buffered approach that allows faster signalling, kinda like RAMBUS, not to mention *dual* independent 1333Mhz FSBs, with a 4-channel memory interface.

It's kinda sad that all this cool technology is pushing around such a crap ISA command stream, but here we are.