In my experience the 604e, and 604ev is considerably faster Floating Point wise than the G3. The G3 is after all nothing more than a refined 603e with better integer performance. My 9600/350 ran circles around a 300mhz G3 card in Strata for rendering. Norton System Info also showed the 604e kicked the G3's ass in Floating Point. To me, the 604e also felt more responsive than the 603e and G3 cpu's. The 604e was like a multicore CPU for it's time, it featured 3 separate ALU's on silicon not including it's complex FPU, load and store, or branch unit. Not until the G4 came around did I feel the responsiveness of the 604e again.

I loved the 604e, too bad the G3 followed the 603e design, and not the 604e