All in though, I'd expect the 970 to be pretty damn quick regardless, the POWER4 core is very nice, and has impressive FP itself, though the ones I've used all had silly amounts of cache. A 1GHz Hypertransport bus is definitely good move, as is the 400MHz memory bus, a dual 1.4GHz G4 must be incredibly crippled by the shared 166MHz bus.
All in though, I'd expect the 970 to be pretty damn quick regardless, the POWER4 core is very nice, and has impressive FP itself, though the ones I've used all had silly amounts of cache. A 1GHz Hypertransport bus is definitely good move, as is the 400MHz memory bus, a dual 1.4GHz G4 must be incredibly crippled by the shared 166MHz bus.
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