Twice the integer performance of the previous top of the line, the 2.5GHz Power Mac Quad G5, and 1.6 times the floating point performance. In synthetic tests, Apple claims that the 3GHz Mac Pro, with its twin Xeon processors, offers more than The 5100 can only be used in single- or dual-processor configurations, so we won’t see any Xserves with four Xeons in it, although Intel is expected to announce a quad-core successor to the 5100 series some time in 2007. One other reason, aside from performance, that the Xeon 5100 was the perfect chip to use in Apple’s flagship Mac was because it is the only Core chip that can currently be used in a dual-processor configuration similar to the Power Mac Quad G5. That’s due to the fact that the chip was designed to excel at the processing of huge amounts of data, like those found in real-world applications like movie production with Final Cut Pro, or image editing in applications like Aperture or Adobe Photoshop (once Photoshop is Intel-native on OS X). The company terms it a “server” chip, although most hardware vendors, Apple included, will use it in professional systems like the Mac Pro. This platform was initially introduced to the public late in 2005, with chips continuing to roll out throughout this year it includes the Core Duo and Core Solo processors used in the Mac Mini and the iMac, as well as some other chips that haven’t shown up in Macs-at least not yet.Ĭode-named “Woodcrest,” the Xeon 5100 debutedĪt the end of June, and was designed to offer top-speed computational throughput with better power efficiency than Intel’s previous high-end processors.
Xserve lines are entirely new chips, based on Intel’s 64-bit Core architecture platform. Although Intel has been using the Xeon name since 1998, the dual-core Xeon 5100 processors that power the
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