17" unibody MBP XBench and impressions

[ayasin]

This thread is a work in progress. I've posted several pics already in my twitter feed (twitter.com/ayasin). Here are the specs:

Stock 17" unibody MBP with the following upgrades:
- 2.93 GHz processor
- 7200 RPM 320 GB HD

This XBench was run with the "Higher Performance" option selected in power options.

Results	150.08	
	System Info		
		Xbench Version		1.3
		System Version		10.5.6 (9G2141)
		Physical RAM		4096 MB
		Model		MacBookPro5,2
		Drive Type		Hitachi HTS723232L9SA62
	CPU Test	197.85	
		GCD Loop	342.30	18.04 Mops/sec
		Floating Point Basic	165.91	3.94 Gflop/sec
		vecLib FFT	138.90	4.58 Gflop/sec
		Floating Point Library	245.75	42.79 Mops/sec
	Thread Test	362.33	
		Computation	495.78	10.04 Mops/sec, 4 threads
		Lock Contention	285.48	12.28 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
	Memory Test	196.24	
		System	242.16	
			Allocate	359.91	1.32 Malloc/sec
			Fill	195.08	9485.06 MB/sec
			Copy	223.01	4606.22 MB/sec
		Stream	164.96	
			Copy	154.56	3192.32 MB/sec
			Scale	160.26	3310.91 MB/sec
			Add	174.39	3714.86 MB/sec
			Triad	172.30	3685.82 MB/sec
	Quartz Graphics Test	247.43	
		Line	228.18	15.19 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
		Rectangle	301.13	89.90 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
		Circle	245.58	20.02 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
		Bezier	238.75	6.02 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
		Text	235.64	14.74 Kchars/sec
	OpenGL Graphics Test	190.21	
		Spinning Squares	190.21	241.30 frames/sec
	User Interface Test	414.84	
		Elements	414.84	1.90 Krefresh/sec
	Disk Test	45.41	
		Sequential	87.57	
			Uncached Write	116.94	71.80 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	74.75	42.29 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	58.91	17.24 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	147.63	74.20 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Random	30.65	
			Uncached Write	9.98	1.06 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	88.67	28.39 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	83.90	0.59 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	141.48	26.25 MB/sec [256K blocks]

I'll run one with "better battery" next.

 

[ayasin]

Here's the XBench with "better battery" selected:

Results	149.58	
	System Info		
		Xbench Version		1.3
		System Version		10.5.6 (9G2141)
		Physical RAM		4096 MB
		Model		MacBookPro5,2
		Drive Type		Hitachi HTS723232L9SA62
	CPU Test	198.08	
		GCD Loop	342.55	18.06 Mops/sec
		Floating Point Basic	165.70	3.94 Gflop/sec
		vecLib FFT	139.45	4.60 Gflop/sec
		Floating Point Library	245.81	42.80 Mops/sec
	Thread Test	424.51	
		Computation	591.98	11.99 Mops/sec, 4 threads
		Lock Contention	330.90	14.24 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
	Memory Test	195.48	
		System	242.02	
			Allocate	363.06	1.33 Malloc/sec
			Fill	194.09	9437.09 MB/sec
			Copy	222.77	4601.24 MB/sec
		Stream	163.96	
			Copy	154.02	3181.27 MB/sec
			Scale	159.60	3297.25 MB/sec
			Add	172.45	3673.64 MB/sec
			Triad	171.24	3663.28 MB/sec
	Quartz Graphics Test	238.70	
		Line	221.30	14.73 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
		Rectangle	287.99	85.98 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
		Circle	236.20	19.25 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
		Bezier	233.23	5.88 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
		Text	225.53	14.11 Kchars/sec
	OpenGL Graphics Test	189.60	
		Spinning Squares	189.60	240.52 frames/sec
	User Interface Test	403.04	
		Elements	403.04	1.85 Krefresh/sec
	Disk Test	44.77	
		Sequential	86.65	
			Uncached Write	128.42	78.85 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	73.67	41.68 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	55.55	16.26 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	147.06	73.91 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Random	30.19	
			Uncached Write	9.82	1.04 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	89.24	28.57 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	83.05	0.59 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	134.44	24.95 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

[sascha h-k]

is your test saved on xbench.com ?

 

[tobyg]

And which video card is being used?

I don't really trust xbench results, but these look nice though. Thread test is nearly double my 2.4ghz 17" MBP and CPU is about 50 points higher.

Then again, I don't understand why the thread test would be faster on "better battery" than "better performance".

 

[ayasin]

is your test saved on xbench.com ?

No, I just saved to text and posted here. I can re-run them and post if there's some advantage.

 

[kastenbrust]

And which video card is being used?

Better battery means the 9600M card

 

[ayasin]

And which video card is being used?

Better Battery = 9400 embedded
Better Performance = 9600GT discrete