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  1. lewis_cooper

    PC Geforce GTX 960 4GB running in Mac Pro 3,1 (2008) - benchmarks for comparison

    I'd like to see if I have bought the best card for my budget (≤ £200) for my 2008 Mac Pro 3,1. I've installed and am successfully running the 4GB version of the Gigabyte Nvidia Geforce GTX 960 which is an unflashed PC card so no boot screen. I will admit that I bought the card on the...
  2. lewis_cooper

    Mac Pro 3,1 - 16GB 667mhz faster than 20GB 800mhz RAM??

    Here's a conundrum for you all… I have a 2008 Mac Pro 3,1 2 x 2.8 GHz running El Capitan 10.11.5. I had 16GB of RAM made up of a mixture of 800mhz and 667mhz modules.The presence of the 667mhz causes even the 800mhz modules to run at 667mhz so I decided to purchase 4 x 4GB modules so that I...
  3. cpnotebook80

    4k and VR Benchmarking OSX app

    I only see the 3dmark benchmarking app for PC etc but nothing for mac. I do have geek bench pro but wondering if any mac apps exist to test your readiness for 4k video or gaming and also perhaps VR. Xbench looks very old. Im trying to test my cMP.
  4. zooole

    Low benchmark scores (SE)

    Hi! I have a 64Gb SE with iOS 9.3.2. I noticed some problems with games like Real Racing 3, where while racing, during LoD changes it stutters. General performance is 30 FPS (I think it's locked), but when it's loading something, it immediately drops frames which make it almost unplayable. At...
  5. H

    MacBook (m3, m5, m7) Performance Compared to Recent Airs and Pros (Chart)

    I put together this chart of the average MacBook Geekbench scores, compared to the i5 variants of previous MacBook Airs and MacBook Pros: MacBook Air vs. MacBook: The m5 and m7 MacBooks outperform all prior i5 MacBook Airs in the benchmark. The m3 MacBook scores about the same as the 2014...