Benchmark your Mac

[macintroll]

well i've just test your soft on my
dual G4 450 Mhz 768 Mo 20 G running osX 5G40.

first : i test with all my currents apps opens :
IE - Terminal - iTune playing - CPU monitor - "classic" - photoshop
my result was : 1,75 secs

( only on one processor i think

2° :
I close every things and relaunch the app :
time result : 1,64999999976158142 secs

quite the same no ? real multitask !!! yeah !
Well if it could have done on the two pross i should have found the result cut by 2 ?????

great !!!!

[kidemet]

Powerbook G4 Titanium on 500 MHz, 256 MB RAM

1.9500000 min

[knighthawk]

first : i test with all my currents apps opens :
IE - Terminal - iTune playing - CPU monitor - "classic" - photoshop
my result was : 1,75 secs

( only on one processor i think

The benchmark application only uses one processor, but OSX using both. This means that while one processor was doing the benchmark, the other was playing an iTunes song. One good way to see what your processor is doing is to open up the CPU monitor utility. This just shows total CPU usage. The Process Viewer utility shows in more detail what the processor is being used for. If you change the sampling rate from the default 20 secs to 5, you can get a better idea of what is going on. Run the benchmark while you are watching the Process Viewer, and you will see that every once in a while, the Login process appears. Also you see that at certain times, the Window Manager (Aqua?) jumps up to about 10-15% and then back down to normal 2-3%. I think both of these will be changed in the new version 10.1, and we will be able to see a slight increase in the times for this benchmark.

[omegaroot]

In case anyone is interested I ran a few benchmarks on my not so new dual 533 ( digital audio, no fancy codenames for me =( )running OS X 10.0.4, 256 Megs. of RAM, 7200(?) RPM stock 20 gig. ATA, Adaptec Ultra160 controller attached to a 10k RPM Quantum 9 gig. and a nVidia GeForce2 MX.
ok, here goes...

Quickbench Time: 1.38333332 (min.)
- i beleive it uses both CPUs indirectly cause i had other programs open at the time but none using the CPU, and while it was running CPU monitor showed both CPUs jumping up and down.

Altivec Fractal: 3351.4 MegaFLOPs (4.0 sec)

On the lighter side everyone seems to complain about OS X being slow. In X my DP is only a little bit slower, but greatly makes up for it with the multithreaded system. Ill be happy to take the speed hit considering it all even out when you add all the hangs you can run into in 9 while awaiting something to render/get connection/etc....

just my 2 cents though....

[tbartus]

I took 2.76 when I had Netscape, StuffIt, Mail, Internet Connect open and 2.23 when I closed them all.

System>

iMac DV 400 Mhz
640 MB RAM
10 GB Hard Drive

[phammybly]

i got 0.483333318762 minutes

[Doctor X]

7 and a half years . . . that has to be a record for:

T3h D34dly Thr34d N3cr0m4ncy!!11!!


*Downloads Application to Check*

--J.D.

[Doctor X]

0.5166666507720947 minutes.

Tried it again: 0.449999988079071 minutes!

Do I win?

--J.D.