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Originally Posted by BBKing
G4 is not the Apple version of P4, it's a totally different processor architecture called POWER made by Motorola/IBM (not 68000 any more, Proppin, that was a while ago!).
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Actually, the architecture is PowerPC. POWER is the name of a line of processors made by IBM that conform to the PowerPC architecture.
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Originally Posted by BBKing
Other chip architectures such as the AMD K8 (Athlon64/Opteron), the Fujitsu SPARC64V and the Sun UltraSPARC are all clocked far lower than Intel's Pentium 4s, but can cream it in the real world (they're also all 64bit). So don't look at the raw speed to compare processors.
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AMD K8 is not an architecture, it's a specific processor. There are quite a few architectures, but the main ones are x86(AMD/Intel), PowerPC and SPARC.