Apple lays the PowerPC architecture to rest with the introduction of the new Mac Pro. How well does this dual-Xeon, quad-core workstation this measure up to its PowerPC predecessor as well as the rest of Apple's Intel lineup? We did two benchmarks of PowerPC applications on both the Power Mac G5 and the Mac Pro. First up was a simple Microsoft Word scroll test. We took at 1,609-page, 10.8MB document and scrolled from top to bottom using the scroll-down arrow. Our other test was that old bakeoff reliable, Photoshop. In this case, we used PSBench 7 to perform 21 actions in Photoshop CS2 on both systems.

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