MacMinute reader Derek Kent let us know that NASA has apparently benchmarked Apple’s dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 at its Langley Research Center in Virginia. “The main purpose of the tests was to compare the G5 to the G4 for ‘computational fluid dynamics applications’ however they also compare it to the Pentium 4. The test was well documented and concludes that ‘the G5 has about 22% better scalar floating point performance per clock cycle than the G4 systems tested and 32% better floating point performance per clock cycle than the P4 systems tested.'”