Benchmark your Mac

[.dev.lqd]

If you want to be technical about it- I ran the benchmark twice in 1.6 minutes on my dual 500 system

That should count as about 40 seconds hehe.

[rharder]

AltiVec wouldn't help with this particular code. It uses doubles because it needs a guaranteed 53bits of accuracy in the mantissa. Floats are not accurate enough, and that's the biggest thing AltiVec handles. It's unfortunate, but it's just not what AltiVec was made for.

-Rob

[knighthawk]

I just benchmarked the macs at work with the GUI version.

Both running 10.0.4
G3 iMac 233 = 4.056667
G4 Quicksilver 733 = 1.486667

I was expecting the 733 to be closer to 1.2 or even 1.1 which would be nearly 2x faster than my 400 G4 at home.

The math works out to be what I would expect a 550mhz G4 to handle the calculations. I did notice that the Window Manager and other processes required just as much CPU power as on my G4 400. Maybe when 10.1 comes out (window manager is suppose to be a lot faster) the results will be different.

I have a friend that has a 667 G4, and he said he would try it out. He needs to repartition his drive to install X, so it will be a few days.

[Pardus]

Who says money can't buy happiness, I just checked out the benchmark on my fresh 867 G4[640ram, build10.0.4, dual 19" mon.]

When I left open stuffit and explorer my time was 1.2000000047683716 and then I quit extra stuff and improved my time to 1.183333277702332

Are there some other test apps out there? I would be interested in checking things out. As always, you may as well enjoy being fast until apple releases something next gen.

[FrgMstr]

hi all, ive got an athlon @1.466Ghz
in an earlier reply someone asked if an athlon could test it, i cant unzip the program supplied, is it OSX only or what do i have to do to use it.

If someone could post up instructions on how to do it, i would run it on my machine, i have MS visual studio, and a few other C and C++ compilers at hand just need complete instructions.

cheers

[sandsl]

Spec:
iMac 400mhz G3 (10.04) /192mb

Result:
2.666666746139526

[knighthawk]

FrgMstr:

there is another thread called "Quick math benchmark for you to run" that has the original C source code.

[ony_gosshamer]

For Lime DV iMac 400 mhz, 9.5 gig, 320 ram, 10.0.4

2.733333349227905


- eric