[Ti] XBench 800 MHZ DVI compared with 1.6 GHZ 64MB VRAM

[Bill Fox]

Oops, I think Paul hit it right. My 1.5 GHz 17" PBG4 Xbench numbers 
were based on "Automatic" here are the "Highest" numbers--huge 
difference:

Results	 143.28
	
	System Info		
		Xbench Version		1.1.3
		System Version		10.3.7 (7S215)
		Physical RAM		1024 MB
		Model		PowerBook5,5
		Processor		PowerPC G4 @ 1.50 GHz
			L1 Cache		32K (instruction), 32K (data)
			L2 Cache		512K @ 1.50 GHz
			Bus Frequency		167 MHz
		Video Card		ATY,RV360M11
		Drive Type		TOSHIBA MK8025GAS
	CPU Test	165.56	
	Thread Test	127.50	
	Memory Test	130.02	
	Quartz Graphics Test	178.61	
	OpenGL Graphics Test	112.65	
	User Interface Test	211.36	
	Disk Test	55.08	
		
On Feb 3, 2005, at 9:45 PM, Paul H. Yoshimune wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 11:27:47PM -0600, Robert Nicholson wrote:
>> It wasn't by any means a scientific test but perhaps there are issues
>> with XBench on the newer powerbooks?
>>
>> I definately shut down all apps before conducting the test though.
>
> You might check in the Energy Saver preference, and see if there's a 
> processor
> performance setting.  Make sure it's set to "highest"; having it other 
> settings
> has been shown to greatly affect performance...