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I'mAMac

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Just wondering what people have gotten with XBench on various setups. On the comp in my sig I got a 174.88. What I'd really like to know is how the SSD could improve these scores, but im curious about the i7 and the higher clocked i5 as well but post any comp you have tested. Just post your setup and show off those scores!:cool:

EDIT: Upon performing the test again my comp scored a 179.45.
 

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DeusInvictus7

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Here's mine, which is weirdly lower than yours...so that kinda has me worried.

The OpenGL test is where it really bothers me, where my score is half yours, but my 330M has twice the RAM. And my disk is slower...which it shouldn't be since the data is more dense on mine since it is 500GB vs 320GB.

EDIT: Reran the test and got 176.something. So I don't what to believe. One thing is accurate though, my processor is, by our scores, 13% faster (195/222.85).
 

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TZRaceR6

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Jun 8, 2010
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United Kingdom
2010 MacBook Pro 13.3" 2.66GHz version running 10.6.3 OSX

Score = 134.15

Results 134.15
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.3 (10D2125)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model MacBookPro7,1
Drive Type Hitachi HTS545032B9SA02
CPU Test 188.10
GCD Loop 312.21 16.46 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 154.81 3.68 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 123.78 4.08 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 283.74 49.41 Mops/sec
 

I'mAMac

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Aug 28, 2006
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Here's mine, which is weirdly lower than yours...so that kinda has me worried.

The OpenGL test is where it really bothers me, where my score is half yours, but my 330M has twice the RAM. And my disk is slower...which it shouldn't be since the data is more dense on mine since it is 500GB vs 320GB.

EDIT: Reran the test and got 176.something. So I don't what to believe. One thing is accurate though, my processor is, by our scores, 13% faster (195/222.85).

Yeah that is interesting. I wonder what causes the discrepancies when running the tests multiple times. Also, make sure you have the nvidia card enabled and not the intel. I did that the first time and got like a 125 >.<
 

I'mAMac

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Geekbench scores

I can run the test again if you want all of the other results as well but this should be ok for now.
 

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iBookG4user

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Here's Xbench with my Early 2008 MacBook Pro (6GB RAM with OWC SSD). I was 8 other programs, however if I remember I'll xbench it after a restart.
 

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I'mAMac

macrumors 6502a
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Aug 28, 2006
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Here's Xbench with my Early 2008 MacBook Pro (6GB RAM with OWC SSD). I was 8 other programs, however if I remember I'll xbench it after a restart.

Yeah the SSD makes a huge diff. MY disk test was in the low 50s and yours was 183. :eek: Might have to upgrade to one of those when they get a little cheaper. What was processor speed?
 

Hemingray

macrumors 68030
Jan 9, 2002
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Ha ha haaa!
I've all but stopped using XBench because it seems unreliable to me (and there's no 64-bit version that I know of.)

When I do run it, I always run it at least 5 times and take an average of the 5. Depending on how "off" the first number is, I sometimes throw that one out altogether. Why is the first result always low? Beats me!

I've started using GeekBench myself.
 

DeusInvictus7

macrumors 68020
Aug 13, 2008
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I can run the test again if you want all of the other results as well but this should be ok for now.

Hmm. I got 5700 for mine, so at least that kinda makes me feel better. Although Geekbench doesn't do anything to test the graphics, which is what is really concerning me.
 

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EvillYoda

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Jun 8, 2010
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I actually have an older late-2008 uMBP. Core2Duo 2.53ghz 4GB RAM and a new Intel SSD :).

The scores with new new SSD are really impressive. Even with my older chipset the HDD was definitely the bottleneck. As SSD would make your computer scream.

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zmttoxics

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May 20, 2008
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xBench is a bad benchmarking tool. It is usually faster with every run because the data ends up being cached so it gets accessed faster the next time.

GeekBench is a pretty good tool, but I have seen different results between different operating systems on the same hardware.
 

TZRaceR6

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Jun 8, 2010
192
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United Kingdom
Just installed a 128gb SSD and my XBench score has gone from the 134.15 to 207. Quite the improvement for a 2010 13.3" 2.66 Duo Core 2.


Results 207.28
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.4 (10F569)
Physical RAM 6144 MB
Model MacBookPro7,1
Drive Type KINGSTON SNVP325S2128GB
CPU Test 189.12
GCD Loop 311.22 16.41 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 153.23 3.64 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 124.04 4.09 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 298.61 52.00 Mops/sec
Thread Test 316.54
Computation 350.87 7.11 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 288.34 12.40 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 191.89
System 238.54
Allocate 426.32 1.57 Malloc/sec
Fill 187.66 9124.24 MB/sec
Copy 204.00 4213.62 MB/sec
Stream 160.50
Copy 153.08 3161.78 MB/sec
Scale 152.15 3143.42 MB/sec
Add 169.51 3610.92 MB/sec
Triad 169.00 3615.32 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 161.90
Line 147.97 9.85 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 159.52 47.63 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 151.92 12.38 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 179.36 4.52 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 175.46 10.98 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 158.56
Spinning Squares 158.56 201.14 frames/sec
User Interface Test 295.51
Elements 295.51 1.36 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 235.53
Sequential 159.39
Uncached Write 271.62 166.77 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 278.34 157.48 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 67.30 19.70 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 337.43 169.59 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 451.00
Uncached Write 245.76 26.02 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 424.90 136.03 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 1191.18 8.44 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 622.17 115.45 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 

johnnymg

macrumors 65816
Nov 16, 2008
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Mid 2009 2.66GHz MBP with 8G ram and SSD: :cool:

Results 221.28

System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.4 (10F569)
Physical RAM 8192 MB
Model MacBookPro5,1
Drive Type C300-CTFDDAC128MAG
CPU Test 189.15
GCD Loop 310.97 16.39 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 151.44 3.60 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 125.40 4.14 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 298.19 51.92 Mops/sec
Thread Test 259.08
Computation 329.48 6.67 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 213.47 9.18 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 185.88
System 230.61
Allocate 370.81 1.36 Malloc/sec
Fill 185.96 9041.59 MB/sec
Copy 202.64 4185.53 MB/sec
Stream 155.69
Copy 146.20 3019.73 MB/sec
Scale 152.39 3148.36 MB/sec
Add 163.46 3482.07 MB/sec
Triad 162.00 3465.47 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 209.51
Line 183.73 12.23 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 238.35 71.16 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 204.70 16.69 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 214.05 5.40 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 214.13 13.40 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 166.71
Spinning Squares 166.71 211.49 frames/sec
User Interface Test 304.17
Elements 304.17 1.40 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 327.95
Sequential 201.61
Uncached Write 244.37 150.04 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 240.35 135.99 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 108.03 31.61 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 429.12 215.67 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 878.43
Uncached Write 1085.38 114.90 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 438.01 140.22 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 2274.18 16.12 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 1099.52 204.02 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 

Preclaro_tipo

macrumors regular
Dec 6, 2003
177
188
West Lafayette, IN
Just installed a 128gb SSD and my XBench score has gone from the 134.15 to 200. Quite the improvement for a 2010 13.3" 2.66 Duo Core 2.

...
OpenGL Graphics Test 169.52
Spinning Squares 169.52 215.05 frames/sec
User Interface Test 187.37
Elements 187.37 859.94 refresh/sec
...

Hey TZ,and others, I'd like to see your results again now that you have 10.6.4 installed.
Attached are my xBench results from 10.6.1 to 10.6.4 I wish I had 10.6.3 but I don't, anyway, checkout the highlighted OpenGL results.

As Valve said, and as people have found, clearly there seems to be problem (problems?) with 10.6.4 in terms of graphics performance but I wonder if there are bugs hampering performance issues where in fact the baseline performance numbers maybe increasing as evidenced by my benchmark results.

Side note: Since 10.6.1 I have updated my hard drive from a stock 320gb to a 1tb Caviar Black which does impact the overall results and the topic of this thread seems to be the hard disc drive.
 

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gonzaload1987

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Mar 3, 2009
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Here i share my results and i can say: WOW...

Xbenchs screams like hell and so does my 2010 mpb, i7, 8gb of ram and 240 gb OWC SSD :D ... so happy with these upgrade :cool:
 

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BobbyCarbn

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Jun 21, 2009
155
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xbench yields a 317, although I think they need a 64bit version..

MBP 15 HiRes AG, i7, 8GB, OWC Mercury Extreme 240GB SSD
 

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Intell

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Jan 24, 2010
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You do know XBench hasn't been updated since 2006 and it's results aren't very accurate anymore.
 
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