Thread: Mac G4 render farm
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Re: Mac G4 render farm
I think you might have made a wrong calculation...

The new Mac Pro's have 2 processors, each dual core with each core running at a clock speed of 3 ghz. Therefore, the calculation should be 4x3 ghz=12 ghz= 12 billion instructions per second.

A quad 3.0 Mac with 2 gigs of memory is around the price of that lot of G4's. If you take only the CPU clock speed into consideration, then the lot of G4's might perform a little better. But when you calculate performance, you have to consider the memory, graphics card and processor specs (cache,frontside buses) and all the other components I do not know much about. Also, I think that the G4's performance might go down a little because of the many network connections that would be needed in such a render farm.