May 20, 2016  As requested, a test comparing the performance of the CorePlayer with the rest. On the Quad, it doesn't make so much practical difference. I don't have access to an older machine at the moment for. I was unsure whether to post this in the Mac forum or the HD video forum, but felt that it is more of a computer question. I have been using my Powermac G5 happily for a good many years, both for photography and video, have kept going with it as it has been more than adequate for my needs up to now.

Today, I am maximizing the Power Mac G5, with the being my test subject. We are going to benchmark the stock Mac just as I received it and then upgrade it with more memory, a new hard drive, and an SSD. Round 1: Stock Hardware I would like to start this out with some straight out of the box benchmarking. The G5 came loaded with. I ran Xbench, as it has always been my go to benchmarking software for older Macs. I also recorded the boot time and the time to launch Photoshop CS2.

Testing video playback was last and totally uneventful with the 2.0 GHz dual core G5 running even 1080p HD with no issues. Stock 2 GHz dual-core, 2 GB RAM Xbench 85.14 Boot time 53 sec. Launch PS CS2 20 sec.

Photoshop Filter test 2:53 QuickTime HD playback smooth YouTube playback smooth The Xbench numbers tell a lot of the story with a paltry 85.14, which is compared to the older 2 GHz dual-processor Power Mac G5 2.0 (which has GeForce 6800 Ultra video) being worth 100 points. It turns out the hard drive was to blame with scores 5% to 115% lower. Boot time was what I call reasonable at less than a minute.

Photoshop always seems to take an eternity to load. Again, video playback was very smooth. Round 2: Faster Hard Drive, More Memory Next up, I installed a 500 GB Western Digital 6 Mbps SATA drive. Before I could install it, I needed to adjust the jumper on the hard drive to run at the 1.5 Mbps SATA speed. I installed along with the same applications that were tested on the old drive. Set Processor Performance to 'Highest' in Energy Saver system preference.

Another thing to do when you get a G5 is set it to performance mode in the Energy Saver pane in System Preferences. (I initially forgot this and had to rerun tests - and it makes a difference!) I also installed 8 GB more memory at this time (for a total of 10 GB). Upgraded 2 GHz dual-core, 10 GB RAM Xbench 109.93 Boot Time 46 sec. Launch PS CS2 16 sec. Launch Ill CS2 7 sec.

Launch Safari 6 sec. Photoshop Filter test 2:22 QuickTime HD playback smooth YouTube playback smooth Xbench jumped up a great deal with 24.79 more points (29%!). This was because of the hard drive change, as the memory scores stayed the same. It looks like replacing your original boot drive is a good investment. Boot time was seven seconds faster, and launching Photoshop was faster by four seconds.

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Download whatsapp desktop client for mac os x. Next up was to test Photoshop with my filter test. This includes running two intensive filters and recording the time it takes to complete them. The memory and hard drive boosted our scores here with the memory allotted at maximum 3072 MB (nowhere near our 10 GB, but better than PS 7). Running my filter package on a 222.5 MB photo only used around 2.70 GB of memory total.