Power Mac G5 vs Pentium 4?

so can explain why g5 system run circles around old pentium 4 computers? had pentium 4 system running backup computer when first gen amd athlon 64 x2 based computer died, northwood core , kinda slow, i'm seeing evn g4 being faster. what's this?

 

gryffinwings said: ↑

so can explain why g5 system run circles around old pentium 4 computers? had pentium 4 system running backup computer when first gen amd athlon 64 x2 based computer died, northwood core , kinda slow, i'm seeing evn g4 being faster. what's this?

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if had make guess i'd say..

risc first

fsb speed second

 

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