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. On Feb 3, 2005, at 10:57 PM, Paul H. Yoshimune wrote: > Am I reading this right? So, the newer PowerBook has better graphics > and disk > performance, but actually benchmarks SLOWER on the CPU and memory > tests? While > I understand that benchmarks aren't a definitive test of performance, > this is > pretty unexpected... > > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:28:55PM -0600, Robert Nicholson wrote: >> Here's a comparison of the new 1.67 GHZ G4 Powerbook against my 800 >> MHZ >> G4 Titanium Powerbook. >> >> Results 78.63 >> System Info >> Xbench Version 1.1.3 >> System Version 10.3.7 (7S215) >> Physical RAM 512 MB >> Model PowerBook3,4 >> Processor PowerPC G4 @ 800 MHz >> Version 7455 (Apollo) v2.1 >> L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data) >> L2 Cache 256K @ 800 MHz >> L3 Cache 1024K @ 201 MHz >> Bus Frequency 134 MHz >> Video Card ATY,RageM7 >> Drive Type IC25N080ATMR04-0 >> CPU Test 92.01 >> GCD Loop 88.42 3.45 Mops/sec >> Floating Point Basic 90.36 326.79 Mflop/sec >> AltiVec Basic 97.23 2.82 Gflop/sec >> vecLib FFT 97.95 1.52 Gflop/sec >> Floating Point Library 87.18 3.49 Mops/sec >> Thread Test 65.26 >> Computation 46.85 632.45 Kops/sec, 4 threads >> Lock Contention 107.50 1.35 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads >> Memory Test 103.93 >> System 108.94 >> Allocate 483.23 315.21 Kalloc/sec >> Fill 121.35 965.92 MB/sec >> Copy 58.04 290.22 MB/sec >> Stream 99.36 >> Copy 91.66 670.00 MB/sec [altivec] >> Scale 93.86 692.68 MB/sec [altivec] >> Add 103.63 663.26 MB/sec [altivec] >> Triad 110.57 675.59 MB/sec [altivec] >> Quartz Graphics Test 116.61 >> Line 99.33 2.53 Klines/sec [50% alpha] >> Rectangle 112.64 7.92 Krects/sec [50% alpha] >> Circle 113.93 2.63 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] >> Bezier 103.52 1.12 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] >> Text 182.01 2.97 Kchars/sec >> OpenGL Graphics Test 77.43 >> Spinning Squares 77.43 54.19 frames/sec >> User Interface Test 145.08 >> Elements 145.08 46.66 refresh/sec >> Disk Test 40.28 >> Sequential 41.51 >> Uncached Write 38.72 16.14 MB/sec [4K blocks] >> Uncached Write 34.63 14.18 MB/sec [256K blocks] >> Uncached Read 85.12 13.47 MB/sec [4K blocks] >> Uncached Read 33.44 13.51 MB/sec [256K blocks] >> Random 39.11 >> Uncached Write 32.58 0.49 MB/sec [4K blocks] >> Uncached Write 43.49 9.81 MB/sec [256K blocks] >> Uncached Read 41.65 0.27 MB/sec [4K blocks] >> Uncached Read 40.69 8.37 MB/sec [256K blocks] >> >> Results 92.26 >> System Info >> Xbench Version 1.1.3 >> System Version 10.3.7 (7T62) >> Physical RAM 1024 MB >> Model PowerBook5,6 >> Processor PowerPC G4 @ 1.67 GHz >> L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data) >> L2 Cache 512K @ 1.67 GHz >> Bus Frequency 167 MHz >> Video Card ATY,RV360M11 >> Drive Type Hitachi HTS541080G9AT00 >> CPU Test 82.57 >> GCD Loop 77.03 3.01 Mops/sec >> Floating Point Basic 68.91 249.20 Mflop/sec >> AltiVec Basic 79.94 2.32 Gflop/sec >> vecLib FFT 79.47 1.23 Gflop/sec >> Floating Point Library 125.49 5.02 Mops/sec >> Thread Test 56.48 >> Computation 38.90 525.21 Kops/sec, 4 threads >> Lock Contention 103.03 1.29 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads >> Memory Test 95.09 >> System 90.02 >> Allocate 459.45 299.70 Kalloc/sec >> Fill 79.14 629.97 MB/sec >> Copy 54.01 270.06 MB/sec >> Stream 100.76 >> Copy 98.10 717.10 MB/sec [altivec] >> Scale 98.91 729.98 MB/sec [altivec] >> Add 102.96 658.94 MB/sec [altivec] >> Triad 103.30 631.15 MB/sec [altivec] >> Quartz Graphics Test 139.53 >> Line 118.81 3.02 Klines/sec [50% alpha] >> Rectangle 107.18 7.54 Krects/sec [50% alpha] >> Circle 122.73 2.83 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] >> Bezier 160.06 1.74 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] >> Text 270.82 4.41 Kchars/sec >> OpenGL Graphics Test 118.17 >> Spinning Squares 118.17 82.70 frames/sec >> User Interface Test 181.36 >> Elements 181.36 58.34 refresh/sec >> Disk Test 69.46 >> Sequential 74.75 >> Uncached Write 84.67 35.29 MB/sec [4K blocks] >> Uncached Write 60.64 24.83 MB/sec [256K blocks] >> Uncached Read 89.66 14.19 MB/sec [4K blocks] >> Uncached Read 71.14 28.74 MB/sec [256K blocks] >> Random 64.88 >> Uncached Write 56.23 0.84 MB/sec [4K blocks] >> Uncached Write 64.17 14.47 MB/sec [256K blocks] >> Uncached Read 68.50 0.45 MB/sec [4K blocks] >> Uncached Read 73.05 15.03 MB/sec [256K blocks] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Titanium mailing list >> Titanium at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/titanium > > -- > Paul H. Yoshimune > paul at yoshimune.com > http://www.yoshimune.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Titanium mailing list > Titanium at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/titanium