Oh my Lord, my 2.8ghz just murdered my 3ghz octo

[macenforcer]

So I run a simple benchmark on every mac I get. I record a show with EyeTV. I record 1:01hr and then encode it to ipod at the highest settings. Here are the results for my mac pros.


- 4 core 2.66ghz old mac prow/6gb ram: 1:07:37 hrs
- 8 core 3ghz old mac pro w/9gb ram: 0:46:52 hrs
- 8 core 2.8ghz New mac pro w/2gb ram: 0:27:15 hrs

That is freakin umbelievable. I can't wait to test it when my other 8gb of ram gets here. I think its safe to say that the new 3ghz octo is twice as fast at the last version. WOW!


Oh, and just in case you are curious. My mac mini with the elgato Turbo .264 got 1:20:17 hrs.

[kabunaru]

Unbelievable. :eek:
These new Mac Pros are screamers. :D

[darthraige]

Tower of 8-core power. I love this machine as well. Best investment ever made. Blows my G4 (now a paper weight) away! lol

[4God]

Wow, now that's hawt. :D

[macenforcer]

By the way, the highest temp the cpu ever got was 39c. Now that is cool.

[Rowlander]

Pardon my language, but KICK A$$!

I´m sure you used the same encoding settings but maybe the time also differs, if the content of the video has more or less movement, but that can´t have that much of an impact. Hard to believe, the difference is that huge! :eek:

Very, very impressive from which ever angle you look at it. Now if only they would start shipping the Mac Pros with the 8800GTs. :o

[macenforcer]

Pardon my language, but KICK A$$!

I´m sure you used the same encoding settings but maybe the time also differs, if the content of the video has more or less movement, but that can´t have that much of an impact. Hard to believe, the difference is that huge! :eek:

Very, very impressive from which ever angle you look at it. Now if only they would start shipping the Mac Pros with the 8800GTs. :o

I actually use the same exact tv recording for all my tests. Episode of stargate sg-1 called Fragile Balance. That is the episode where O'neil is cloned and returns as a kid.

[bigbossbmb]

Oh snap! that is quite the slaughter.

this makes me even more anxious for the 8800gt to start shipping so I can have mine.

[gazfocus]

Wow I'm impressed. Any doubt I had about buying an 8 core 2.8GHz Mac Pro have just been flushed down the toilet lol.

Can't wait to get mine now :D

[darthraige]

- 4 core 2.66ghz old mac prow/6gb ram: 1:07:37 hrs
- 8 core 3ghz old mac pro w/9gb ram: 0:46:52 hrs
- 8 core 2.8ghz New mac pro w/2gb ram: 0:27:15 hrs


Still blows my mind. The best part about it is, it's only got 2GB RAM.

[tr0janmann]

do you use handbrake?

[aibo]

With a 2.8 octo on order and being an EyeTV user this is very promising :-)
Thanks for the comparison! Real-world, instead of all the synthetic benchmark uselessness most people post up.

[macenforcer]

do you use handbrake?

Elgato's EyeTV version 2.5.2

[macenforcer]

Still blows my mind. The best part about it is, it's only got 2GB RAM.

Yes I expect those numbers to improve once I can get matched pairs in there per barefeats recommendation.

[darthraige]

Yes I expect those numbers to improve once I can get matched pairs in there per barefeats recommendation.

Compressor 3 also does some damage too. lol Encoding 1 hour of video with 1 core takes about 1 hour, turning on all 8-cores, 10 minutes! Insanely fast!

[Rowlander]

I actually use the same exact tv recording for all my tests...
I see. That´s mindblowing.

While we are talking about speed: How fast does it boot and shut down?
I´m just asking because my current PC takes foreeever for both.
But don´t feel obligated to get out a stopwatch, I´m just trying to make the time pass by faster. :rolleyes: I´d just like to hear an estimate.
We need an entire thread with a bunch of these "This is how fast my new Mac Pro is:"-posts. :D

[Pressure]

The new memory controller certainly does wonders :)

[kirkbross]

Tower of 8-core power. I love this machine as well. Best investment ever made. Blows my G4 (now a paper weight) away! lol

... yes, but is it hip?

[macenforcer]

I see. That´s mindblowing.

While we are talking about speed: How fast does it boot and shut down?
I´m just asking because my current PC takes foreeever for both.
But don´t feel obligated to get out a stopwatch, I´m just trying to make the time pass by faster. :rolleyes: I´d just like to hear an estimate.
We need an entire thread with a bunch of these "This is how fast my new Mac Pro is:"-posts. :D

Just broke out the stop watch just for you. 31 seconds to password prompt.

[darthraige]

... yes, but is it hip?

Hip? Of course. The machine looks so dominant. I kinda want my friend to take the side panel and cut out the Apple logo and put plexiglas there so I can look in it. haha.

[macenforcer]

Oh and another thing. The whole time it was encoding the fans never increased in speed. It is really remarkable.

[kabunaru]

Oh and another thing. The whole time it was encoding the fans never increased in speed. It is really remarkable.

These new Mac Pros are the best computers in the world. :)

[darthraige]

Oh and another thing. The whole time it was encoding the fans never increased in speed. It is really remarkable.

I'll second that motion, and the computer is just quiet in general. I can never tell if its still on. lol

[Rowlander]

... yes, but is it hip?
LOL.
Even better: The Mac Pro is so powerful, it doesn´t bother trying to be hip. That´s the definition of cool in my understanding. :cool:
Maybe that´s why they haven´t changed the casing in years: Just pure power. Never out of style. Unlike lots of other old Apple-designs.

I need to stop "nerding out" about the Mac Pro. Makes me look like a fool and the waiting even more difficult.

Just broke out the stop watch just for you. 31 seconds to password prompt.
Sounds good. That´s hardly enough to get a cup of coffee. ;)

[darthraige]

Sounds good. That´s hardly enough to get a cup of coffee. ;)

Or a glass of water for that matter. I was installing a program and had to restart. As soon as I hit "restart," I got up to go in the kitchen to get some water thinking I'd have enough time. Nope, restarted before I even left the room. haha.

[macenforcer]

CPU Temps are now idleing at 26c. Thats almost freakin room temperature. :eek:

[Voidness]

What's your Mac Mini doing with all those Mac Pros? Wait, what are you doing with all those Mac Pros? :p

That's truly impressive! I'd buy a Mac Pro, but I can't justify the cost of getting one... yet.

CPU Temps are now idleing at 26c. Thats almost freakin room temperature.
My iBook idles at around 45c! :eek: Then again, the iBook seems to mainly rely on passive cooling. It only turns on the fan when it reaches 65c.

[macenforcer]

What's your Mac Mini doing with all those Mac Pros? Wait, what are you doing with all those Mac Pros? :p

That's truly impressive! I'd buy a Mac Pro, but I can't justify the cost of getting one... yet.

As soon as I catch wind of a new mac pro coming out I sell my current one on ebay. I ALWAYS get exactly what I paid for it.

[Voidness]

As soon as I catch wind of a new mac pro coming out I sell my current one on ebay. I ALWAYS get exactly what I paid for it.
I assumed so. :) It's great that you're getting back what you paid for it.

and this iBook needs to be replaced.

[Jebaloo]

As soon as I catch wind of a new mac pro coming out I sell my current one on ebay. I ALWAYS get exactly what I paid for it.

How do you manage to get 100% resale price? I'd love to know if you have any tips!

[macenforcer]

How do you manage to get 100% resale price? I'd love to know if you have any tips!

Buy from Macconnection when they have the $200 rebate with no tax and free ship. Mac resale prices are phenomenal.

[MacRoom]

Oh and another thing. The whole time it was encoding the fans never increased in speed. It is really remarkable.Congrats MacEnforcer. I'm having to wait about two more weeks for my 3.2GHz octo to arrive. Looks like that EyetV export is going to be a wonderful time killer @ 3.2GHz. Was that iPod compatible 2 pass H.264 640x360 from HD originals or what? Have you given Handbrake 0.9.1 a shot yet? Any Toast tests yet? ElGato claims Toast 8 will use all 8 cores.

[Squonk]

... yes, but is it hip?

Well I got the musical reference. Outstanding!!! :cool:

[errol]

So I run a simple benchmark on every mac I get. I record a show with EyeTV. I record 1:01hr and then encode it to ipod at the highest settings. Here are the results for my mac pros.


- 4 core 2.66ghz old mac prow/6gb ram: 1:07:37 hrs
- 8 core 3ghz old mac pro w/9gb ram: 0:46:52 hrs
- 8 core 2.8ghz New mac pro w/2gb ram: 0:27:15 hrs

That is freakin umbelievable. I can't wait to test it when my other 8gb of ram gets here. I think its safe to say that the new 3ghz octo is twice as fast at the last version. WOW!


Oh, and just in case you are curious. My mac mini with the elgato Turbo .264 got 1:20:17 hrs.

The one conclusion I can draw from your post: Yay mac mini!!!

[Spikeanator6982]

The one conclusion I can draw from your post: Yay mac mini!!!

lol, i wonder what It would get if the elgato encoder wasn't helping it.

[FastMan]

Still blows my mind. The best part about it is, it's only got 2GB RAM.

darthraige, I took the advice you provided me a couple weeks ago on the speed of this beast and stuck with the 2.8, rather than doing the 3.2 upgrade I was considering. This thread confirms your wisdom. Thanks, Bud. I put the money saved into a 30 inch ACD, and extra RAM. Feelin good. :)

[MrPDaddyHimself]

Well I for one would like to thank you for these posts. I purchased the 3.2 with 8800GT, Raid Card, 4 1-TB drives and 16 GB of RAM from OWC. For kicks I bought the EyeTV Hybrid Stick with QAM. Already have Toast 8 and use it to pull anything I record from my TIVO. Man, this is going to be fun....

Problem is, I've waited so long to purchase this computer I'm numb.

[bigbird]

Well I for one would like to thank you for these posts. I purchased the 3.2 with 8800GT, Raid Card, 4 1-TB drives and 16 GB of RAM from OWC. For kicks I bought the EyeTV Hybrid Stick with QAM. Already have Toast 8 and use it to pull anything I record from my TIVO. Man, this is going to be fun....

I wish I had your kind of money to spend on toys.

[rhett7660]

OH man I can't wait to get my hands on my new Mac Pro!!! Can't wait I tell you... tick tock tick tock.. is it the end of February yet!

[MrPDaddyHimself]

Well for one, its not a toy for me. Its my business. And two, I've saved and saved and worked a very long time for this computer. I was ready to buy in September but waited knowing all well that Apple would release the new big bad boy sooner than later. Glad I did now. And three, TAX WRITEOFF.

And that my friends is my State of the Union! ;)

[schreck]

Wow. The numbers are brilliant, but not only that, the temperatures are just amazing. I've got the 2,8 quad, and it always amazes me to check istat and see the cpu temp. I'll be encoding a video and editing a photo and it'll barely hit 105F. It's unreal.

[astroboi]

... yes, but is it hip?

Well I got the musical reference. Outstanding!!! :cool:

If you're really hip, the passing years will show.

[Rick Here]

[QUOTE=macenforcer;4848798]
- 8 core 2.8ghz New mac pro w/2gb ram: 0:27:15 hrs
QUOTE]

And how much faster will this be with a Mac Pro HW RAID card?
Perhaps faster than a 3.2ghz machine.
End the I/O bottleneck....

[MacRoom]

- 8 core 2.8ghz New mac pro w/2gb ram: 0:27:15 hrs

And how much faster will this be with a Mac Pro HW RAID card?
Perhaps faster than a 3.2ghz machine.
End the I/O bottleneck....10-15 days 'til I get my 3.2GHz with the RAID card + 32GB of RAM + four 1TB drives. Will Raid 5 the three beyond the #1 boot drive. Then I'll let you know how fast the ultimate configuration is. :D

[eyecool]

Awesome thread! I'm psyched and now want EyeTV! I better wait until the new mac pro actually gets here though. lol. Feb 13 and counting...

[imacdaddy]

Boy I can't wait for my Early 2K8 to arrive!

Right now (on my iMac G5) I'm getting over 10 hours ripping and encoding 1 DVD using Handbreak and around 3 hours converting a 700MB divx to MP4 using VisualHub for my AppleTV at the highest settings.

I've stopped doing it since last Sep thinking I was going to get a MP then. Thank goodness I waited.

[ntrigue]

This is not a RAM intensive process so I think 2Gb was not used but great processor benchmark!

[pjrobertson]

Hmm, I think the RAM does have something to do with it. My Macbook seems slower with 4GB, and lots of people have said they feel a slow down after adding RAM.

I'm guessing if you add extra RAM that's not needed, it'll slow down the system.

- like me, I usually only use about 2GB RAM out of my 4GB

[edesignuk]

That really is quite astounding, not least given the 9GB vs 2GB memory.

*very happy about recent purchase*

[Bastich]

These new Mac Pros are the best computers in the world. :)

I hear of you buy a new Mac Pro, you automatically get into heaven free.

:cool:

[Sun Baked]

Some of the talk on the skulltrail was about the better RAM bandwidth on the chipset and how Intel worked with memory makers to reduce DIMM temps.

Along with the bump in cache, it does seem like a winner.

Cannot find that RAM story though.

[irishgrizzly]

Hmm, I think the RAM does have something to do with it. My Macbook seems slower with 4GB, and lots of people have said they feel a slow down after adding RAM.

I'm guessing if you add extra RAM that's not needed, it'll slow down the system.

- like me, I usually only use about 2GB RAM out of my 4GB

RAM that's not needed? Surly RAM can always be used – if it's not in active use it's keeping recent programs and docs cached right?

I thought Macs love RAM. This too much RAM is bad stuff is confusing me.

[eviltobz]

it's making me feel all glowy and fuzzy and warm inside checking out this thread. i'm waiting for my mp with 8800gt to ship and so far all i've seen are the "this doesn't work, that doesn't work, i've sent mine back" type threads. nice to see that people are finding it awesome when it does work :)

[edesignuk]

it's making me feel all glowy and fuzzy and warm inside checking out this thread. i'm waiting for my mp with 8800gt to ship and so far all i've seen are the "this doesn't work, that doesn't work, i've sent mine back" type threads. nice to see that people are finding it awesome when it does work :)Remember that people will post when there's a problem, they won't so much when everything is fine, as will be the case with most of them.

[MacRoom]

RAM that's not needed? Surly RAM can always be used – if it's not in active use it's keeping recent programs and docs cached right?

I thought Macs love RAM. This too much RAM is bad stuff is confusing me.I'm populating my 3.2GHz model with 32GB of RAM. I think the story of "too much RAM can be a bad thing" was started by someone who can't afford eight 4GB sticks so they decided to poo poo the idea of fully populating a new Mac Pro.

Are there any others here who are planning on spending the extra $2900 at OWC for a full set of RAM sticks maxed out to the full 32GB? :) I want the ULTIMATE Mac this time round. Been waiting 14 months for this moment. Why cripple this thing in any way?

I see DEATH up ahead. I'd rather be computing to the max cause I can't do it after I die.

[AviationFan]

I see DEATH up ahead. I'd rather be computing to the max cause I can't do it after I die.Interesting rationale. You know, some of us are actually using these Macs for work/business tasks, and think about it in terms of a cost/benefit analysis. Yet others have to deal with the nasty reality of budget constraints. And for a few of us, both things apply...

- Martin

[hc10m]

I used Popcorn 3 to convert a 2 hour DVD to Ipod Video High quality settings,

My iMac G5 2.1(isight) 2.5g Ram bought 2 years ago, took 280 minutes and with 95-100% CPU usage, cant even surf the net.

My Mac Pro 8-core Mac Pro 2g Ram early 2008, took only 28 minutes and with 370% CPU usage, about 40% across 8 processors so still can do other things.

Wow, 10 times different in only 2 years, and the result of iDVD, 2.7g project file

My iMac took 60 minutes vs MacPro 20 minutes only.

I am very happy with this incredible maching, go out and buy one and you will never be disappointed......

[darthraige]

Are there any others here who are planning on spending the extra $2900 at OWC for a full set of RAM sticks maxed out to the full 32GB?.

I'd be curious to know how that runs when you get it. I can see myself maxing out at 32GB next year at some point. However, by next year I will probably want the newest MacPro out too. lol

[ErikAndre]

I'd be curious to know how that runs when you get it. I can see myself maxing out at 32GB next year at some point. However, by next year I will probably want the newest MacPro out too. lol

Yeah, next year it will probably be the new 4 x 3.8Ghz Quad Core Mac Pro (16 Cores).

[Cindori]

The problem is that it's going to be outdated in a month or two.

Nvidia is planning to release their 9800 during feb or march, and knowing Apple, they will probably ship that card during their Mac Pro 2009 release...

[Squonk]

Yeah, next year it will probably be the new 4 x 3.8Ghz Quad Core Mac Pro (16 Cores).

OK, I have to sit down right now - the thought of that makes me queasy... WOW! That is a far cry from my PB!

And I'm just waiting for an Octo 2.8 to be available of the refurb list.

[johny5]

I'll second that motion, and the computer is just quiet in general. I can never tell if its still on. lol

Are they really that quiet? I am thinking of jumping from my 2.8ghz imac and getting a dual 2.8 mac pro but sound is a big issue for me. I currently have 2 external iomega ultramax drives and have to keep them turned off as I think their fans are too noisey :(

[edesignuk]

The problem is that it's going to be outdated in a month or two.Everything is always going to be outdated in the near future, but you have to jump in at some point. I feel I've got my £££ worth with the octo 2.8 and will be happy with it for a good many years yet, even if it's not the latest and greatest.

[eviltobz]

Remember that people will post when there's a problem, they won't so much when everything is fine, as will be the case with most of them.

indeed. still nice to see the happy posts though :)

/checks order status on apple's site
/checks order status on apple's site
/taps foot
/checks order status on apple's site again
/cries

[darthraige]

Everything is always going to be outdated in the near future, but you have to jump in at some point. I feel I've got my £££ worth with the octo 2.8 and will be happy with it for a good many years yet, even if it's not the latest and greatest.

Yea, same here, I didn't want to jump in on the Woodcrest knowing that Harpertown was right around the corner. I am extremely happy with what I purchased and don't mind hanging on for a few years with it.

Are they really that quiet?

They are super quiet. I mean, I'm coming from a G4 which was loud. So this is just a huge difference. My Lacie's are like 50x louder than it. lol

Yeah, next year it will probably be the new 4 x 3.8Ghz Quad Core Mac Pro (16 Cores).

I think a better name would be 2 x 3.8GHz Octo-Core MacPro. lol That would rock. haha, Either way the next one will be insaner. lol

[pjrobertson]

RAM that's not needed? Surly RAM can always be used – if it's not in active use it's keeping recent programs and docs cached right?

I thought Macs love RAM. This too much RAM is bad stuff is confusing me.

I've currently got 381MB free, and that's running / having run 2 virtual machines. I've never had '0MB free', (1MB was the least) so I'm guessing that there's 1MB that's not needed :p

boot times is the thing that's supposed to be affected by adding more RAM, but once you're in, all should be well. :)

[Eric Piercey]

darthraige, I took the advice you provided me a couple weeks ago on the speed of this beast and stuck with the 2.8, rather than doing the 3.2 upgrade I was considering. This thread confirms your wisdom. Thanks, Bud. I put the money saved into a 30 inch ACD, and extra RAM. Feelin good. :)

I think you're misinterpreting his post. He's comparing a new "Early 2008 2.8" to the previous (pre-Harpertown) 3.0. The current 3.2 (Harpertown) would be even faster than the aforementioned 2.8 in this test. The thread title is a little misleading, but it does serve to grab the eye.

[pesos]

Is there any way you could run the benchmark with one physical cpu disabled? I'd be very curious to see the results with just a single quad core cpu running. Something tells me that it would be very similar performance - I somehow doubt that the other four cores are working very hard in most tasks. These are fantastic cpus and a single quad-core is probably smoking all by itself!

[Pressure]

I think a better name would be 2 x 3.8GHz Octo-Core MacPro. lol That would rock. haha, Either way the next one will be insaner. lol

The problem arises as soon as you realize that Nehalem is actually not an Octo-core processor but rather a Quad-core processor with the benefit of HyperThreading.

[macenforcer]

Well, what is amazing to me is that all the numbers say the 2.8 is slower or at least as fast at the old 3ghz octo. Real world tests show it annihilates the 3ghz. It shows that a 3ghz harpertown is twice as fast as the 3ghz it replaces.

[darthraige]

The problem arises as soon as you realize that Nehalem is actually not an Octo-core processor but rather a Quad-core processor with the benefit of HyperThreading.

True, but the phrase does sound cooler with "Octo" in there. But, yea, I can see what you're saying. :cool:

[Pressure]

Well, what is amazing to me is that all the numbers say the 2.8 is slower or at least as fast at the old 3ghz octo. Real world tests show it annihilates the 3ghz. It shows that a 3ghz harpertown is twice as fast as the 3ghz it replaces.

You are refering to your single Elgato encoding result?

[Kuraudo]

Amazing man! You don't know how much this helps us all here!

I must sell my old mac pro and get the new one. I thought I could easily place 2x quad into here, but I find out its so much faster , its a must have!

Too bad avisynth doesn't work so well on Vista and not compatible for osx.

[akadmon]

I'm tempted to get one of these in place of my 2.66 quad. I bet my wife wouldn't even notice if I swapped them in the middle of the night :D
First I have to line up a buyer for my old machine who will be willing to come to my house between 2 and 4 am. Mac Pros are just too damn big to hide around the house for long ;)

[FastMan]

I think you're misinterpreting his post. He's comparing a new "Early 2008 2.8" to the previous (pre-Harpertown) 3.0. The current 3.2 (Harpertown) would be even faster than the aforementioned 2.8 in this test. The thread title is a little misleading, but it does serve to grab the eye.

Thanks, Eric, but I did understand the test format. Just saying that the performance upgrade from the prior pro has apparently been substancial, enough so that I don't think I'm going to be disappointed in my dicision to go with the 2.8. Doing so saved me with enough money to buy all my RAM, and upgrade from a 23" display to a 30". Wow, that 30"er is nice.

[ReanimationLP]

Wow, thats pretty impressive.

Maybe EyeTV doesnt use more than a gig of RAM though.

[MacRoom]

I'm tempted to get one of these in place of my 2.66 quad. I bet my wife wouldn't even notice if I swapped them in the middle of the night :D
First I have to line up a buyer for my old machine who will be willing to come to my house between 2 and 4 am. Mac Pros are just too damn big to hide around the house for long ;)My hunch is you can probably still sell a loaded Quad 2.66 for not much less than the cost of a base 2.8 Octo. Surely your wife won't object to that will she? :)

These performance details are still unknown to most of the general public.

[diamond3]

Just to let some people know, I've got the 8 core - 2.8 mac pro (stock configuration) and its averaging about 110 fps on the ipod high-rez settings (H.264) coming from a dvd movie. Thats while I'm browsing the internet. Its using around 600% of the processor. Its simply amazing!

[c073186]

Sorry for being slightly off topic, but when someone says x.x GHz octo Mac Pro, what does "octo" mean?

[jemo07]

- 4 core 2.66ghz old mac prow/6gb ram: 1:07:37 hrs
- 8 core 3ghz old mac pro w/9gb ram: 0:46:52 hrs
- 8 core 2.8ghz New mac pro w/2gb ram: 0:27:15 hrs

That is freakin umbelievable. I can't wait to test it when my other 8gb of ram gets here. I think its safe to say that the new 3ghz octo is twice as fast at the last version. WOW!


Oh, and just in case you are curious. My mac mini with the elgato Turbo .264 got 1:20:17 hrs.[/QUOTE]

I hate you... :eek::D not really, but darn these are hot! I makes me even greener in the face to have bought the 2.66 in December :(....

BTW, what is your GPU in the 2.66 old system?

[Mackilroy]

Sorry for being slightly off topic, but when someone says x.x GHz octo Mac Pro, what does "octo" mean?
'Octo' means it has eight cores. Just as quad means four cores. :)

[jobutex]

I got my new 8-core 2.8GHz this weekend. I added an additional 2GB of RAM (eek - bought it from Apple, so I paid a premium) but other than that, it is the base model. I ran XBench on it and the stock hard drive and thought I'd share my results. I absolutely LOVE this machine!!!!! It converts a 2 hour divx movie to Apple TV with VisualHub in 12 minutes!!!!

Here are the XBench results:


Results 168.96
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.1 (9B2117)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model MacPro3,1
Drive Type WDC WD3200AAJS-41VWA0
CPU Test 167.36
GCD Loop 320.11 16.87 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 161.17 3.83 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 118.21 3.90 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 163.62 28.49 Mops/sec
Thread Test 598.42
Computation 565.36 11.45 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 635.59 27.34 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 205.19
System 290.54
Allocate 354.15 1.30 Malloc/sec
Fill 239.53 11646.68 MB/sec
Copy 300.57 6208.19 MB/sec
Stream 158.59 a
Copy 159.42 3292.80 MB/sec
Scale 161.16 3329.56 MB/sec
Add 157.11 3346.80 MB/sec
Triad 156.77 3353.60 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 191.07
Line 182.21 12.13 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 226.30 67.56 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 184.50 15.04 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 190.58 4.81 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 178.78 11.18 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 217.84
Spinning Squares 217.84 276.35 frames/sec
Disk Test 75.94
Sequential 111.31
Uncached Write 111.47 68.44 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 114.52 64.80 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 97.54 28.55 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 125.33 62.99 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 57.63
Uncached Write 22.66 2.40 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 129.62 41.50 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 94.40 0.67 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 143.60 26.65 MB/sec [256K blocks]

[MrPDaddyHimself]

I got my new 8-core 2.8GHz this weekend. I added an additional 2GB of RAM (eek - bought it from Apple, so I paid a premium) but other than that, it is the base model. I ran XBench on it and the stock hard drive and thought I'd share my results. I absolutely LOVE this machine!!!!! It converts a 2 hour divx movie to Apple TV with VisualHub in 12 minutes!!!!

Here are the XBench results:


Results 168.96
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.1 (9B2117)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model MacPro3,1
Drive Type WDC WD3200AAJS-41VWA0
CPU Test 167.36
GCD Loop 320.11 16.87 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 161.17 3.83 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 118.21 3.90 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 163.62 28.49 Mops/sec
Thread Test 598.42
Computation 565.36 11.45 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 635.59 27.34 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 205.19
System 290.54
Allocate 354.15 1.30 Malloc/sec
Fill 239.53 11646.68 MB/sec
Copy 300.57 6208.19 MB/sec
Stream 158.59 a
Copy 159.42 3292.80 MB/sec
Scale 161.16 3329.56 MB/sec
Add 157.11 3346.80 MB/sec
Triad 156.77 3353.60 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 191.07
Line 182.21 12.13 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 226.30 67.56 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 184.50 15.04 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 190.58 4.81 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 178.78 11.18 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 217.84
Spinning Squares 217.84 276.35 frames/sec
Disk Test 75.94
Sequential 111.31
Uncached Write 111.47 68.44 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 114.52 64.80 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 97.54 28.55 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 125.33 62.99 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 57.63
Uncached Write 22.66 2.40 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 129.62 41.50 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 94.40 0.67 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 143.60 26.65 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Nice. very nice.

[Bastich]

I just can't wait to come back here in 10 years and laugh at how long it took to encode movies.

Or marvel at the fact that at one time, the studios even allowed us to "own" one.

:cool:

[dukeblue91]

I just can't wait to come back here in 10 years and laugh at how long it took to encode movies.

Or marvel at the fact that at one time, the studios even allowed us to "own" one.

:cool:

Probably the later :(

[irishgrizzly]

My hunch is you can probably still sell a loaded Quad 2.66 for not much less than the cost of a base 2.8 Octo. Surely your wife won't object to that will she? :)

These performance details are still unknown to most of the general public.

Good point, especially if you have an older 8 core Mac Pro. Many buyers wouldn't know about the difference between an 07 Octo and an 08 Octo. The fact the case is the same helps this.

[macenforcer]

So I got my ram today. Now have 10gb in the mac pro. It is definitely feeling faster. Surfing the web is without a doubt snappier BUT I ran the same encoding test with the new ram and guess what. SAME exact time. Interesting. I guess its not a ram intensive process to encode video. I would not have thought so.