Apple Power Mac G5 User Manual
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Bibble
Bibble is a powerful batch image processing application used by professional photog-
raphers for decoding files from native digital camera formats (such as Nikon’s .nef)
into industry-standard formats (such as .tif ). Bibble is a processor-intensive, multi-
processor-aware application that uses symmetric multiprocessing on the Mac and
hyper-threading on the PC to enhance performance.
Apple tested the performance of the Power Mac G5 running MacBibble 3.1a. The test
consisted of batch-converting 85 images from .nef to a 16-bit .tif format and measured
how long each system took to complete the task.
The dual 2GHz and dual 1.8GHz Power Mac G5 systems decoded 85 images 97% and 75%
faster, respectively, than the 3.2GHz Pentium 4–based system, and 40% and 24% faster,
respectively, than the dual 3.2GHz Xeon-based system.
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Power Mac G5
Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5
Power Mac G5
Dual 1.8GHz PowerPC G5
Dell Dimension XPS
3.2GHz Pentium 4
75% faster
Power Mac G5
1.6GHz PowerPC G5
1% faster
Dell Precision 650
Dual 3.2GHz Xeon
41% faster
Alienware Aurora
2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 FX-51
8% slower
Batch image processing performance
Percent faster than Pentium 4
Baseline
97% faster
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Technology and
Performance Overview
Power Mac G5
Bibble Results