Geekbench Score For W3690 In Mac Pro?

wispy007 said:

Hi All,

For all you folk who have installed this CPU how do you find the performance compared to your stock CPU. What geekbench scores are you getting?

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Geekbench

I know this isn't what the OP asked, but I recently put in dual W5590s and find there is a difference in scores between OSs. Lion gives me a higher score than Mountain Lion.

Lou

wispy007 said:

Hi All,

For all you folk who have installed this CPU how do you find the performance compared to your stock CPU. What geekbench scores are you getting?

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I put in a 990X which is the i7 equivalent. My Geekbench went from 8500 with a 2.66 quad to over 16000 with the i7. A nice return on my money.

^^^^Nice jump, but unlike the Xeon, the i7 only supports DDR3-1066 RAM not DDR3-1333.

Lou

flowrider said:

^^^^Nice jump, but unlike the Xeon, the i7 only supports DDR3-1066 RAM not DDR3-1333.

Lou

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Gotta be careful when buying a CPU from that generation. The W3670 looks like a great deal until you see its 1066Mhz only, which is why everyone buys the W3680 or W3690.

^^^^You are correct, but the OP was asking about the W3690 and that does indeed support 1333MHz memory. The i7990X (same 3.46GHz speed) only supports 1066 MHz RAM.

Here are my Geekbench score with a W3690 = 16090
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/2254740

quad 2.66GHz (W3520) to a hex 3.46GHz (W3690)

I upgraded my 2009 quad 2.66GHz (W3520) to a hex 3.46GHz (W3690) (after doing the firmware hack of course).

See images for all details including GeekBench (64-bit): went from 9453 to 16468

At the time I was using 16GB of 1066MHz RAM, but I now have 48GB of 1333MHz RAM (I should run GeekBench again...)

^^^^The W3690 should allow your RAM to run at 1333MHz if it's capable. Your RAM is only showing 1066MHZ. Are you using the slower RAM?

Lou

flowrider said:

^^^^Nice jump, but unlike the Xeon, the i7 only supports DDR3-1066 RAM not DDR3-1333.

Lou

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No. The i7-980x/990x will be registered as a xeon and will run 1333 ram as long as you have that speed installed but will not support ECC. Yes - contrary to published specs i know.

Here's a new Geekbench 3 score for my
2010 Intel Xeon W3680 @ 3.33 GHz
for comparison purposes to 3.46Ghz.

48GB ram/480GB SSD HD/OSX 10.6.8.

Looks like 15821 stock 3.33Ghz vs 16090 for the 3.46Ghz
(at least taking into account how my MP is configured)

Anyone know if the W3690 will work with my 8500 1066mhz 16GB dimm until I get my 1333mhz 10600 ram in the mail?

Just want to make sure it will POST until I get the faster memory.

OrangeSVTguy said:

Anyone know if the W3690 will work with my 8500 1066mhz 16GB dimm until I get my 1333mhz 10600 ram in the mail?

Just want to make sure it will POST until I get the faster memory.

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Yep. The W3690 accepts 1066 Ram. It'll work.

http://ark.intel.com/m/products/52586/Intel-Xeon-Processor-W3690-12M-Cache-3_46-GHz-6_40-GTs-Intel-QPI?q=W3690#@product/specifications

chris.k said:

Yep. The W3690 accepts 1066 Ram. It'll work.

http://ark.intel.com/m/products/525...GTs-Intel-QPI?q=W3690#@product/specifications

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Awesome thanks.

The 3690 can't get here quick enough now

thought you sold your mac pro ?

jetjaguar said:

thought you sold your mac pro ?

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Never sold it... probably won't now with the cpu upgrade

My 2010 3.33 GHz 6-Core Mac Pro

sidabet said:

My 2010 3.33 GHz 6-Core Mac Pro

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Same score I had on mine

3.33ghz 8-core x5590s

My 3.33ghz 8-core is at 19742.
But I have yet to put in the SSD & better ram.