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Old February 25th, 2003, 12:45 PM
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Just ran the test and results were....

Typical - 560.2 MIPS

Fast Integer - 1.2 BIPS.

Nothing running at all in the background.

These are meaningless to me. Could anybody explain what they mean and if I have a fast Mac??!! Thanks

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Old February 25th, 2003, 04:51 PM
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Ah, this good old thread.
Power Mac G4 Dual 1 GHz, 1.25 GB DDR RAM, "WindTunnel" Edition

Typical: 1.6 BIPS
Fast Integer: 4.8 BIPS
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Old February 25th, 2003, 05:21 PM
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My 1GHz iMac 17" 256MB of DDR
Typ. 661 MIPS
Fast I. 2.8 BIPS
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Old February 25th, 2003, 05:25 PM
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SpeedX really isn't a god benchmarking app. And it doesn't even support AltiVec.
So let's start posting our Xbench results:

http://ladd.dyndns.org/xbench/merge....1=15699&doc2=1
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Old February 25th, 2003, 05:39 PM
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well here are my Xbench results:

http://ladd.dyndns.org/xbench/merge....setCookie=true

anyone care to explain half of those tests....
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Old February 25th, 2003, 05:45 PM
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Real world... so I got Finder, Menu Meters, Virtual Desktop, Konfabulator, Tablet Driver, Dock Extender, Mail, iCal, ITunes (playing) Excel, Terminal, Tekxteditor, OmniOutliner, Periodic Table X and Speed X running and I only got

Typical 233,1
and Fast-Int 949,4 Mips on my G4...
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Old February 25th, 2003, 06:15 PM
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I agree, Xbench is much better.
http://ladd.dyndns.org/xbench/merge....setCookie=true My results. My machine is SO SLOW :\
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Typical Instructions: 749.1 MIPS
Fast Integer: 2.8 BIPS

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