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XBench Results with Intel 160G SSD G2

Wow. Yours is so much better. I have mine configured same with yours (160gb intel Gen 2) but I have 8gb ram and this is the result.

Results 212.25
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.2 (10C540)
Physical RAM 8192 MB
Model MacBookPro5,3
Drive Type INTEL SSDSA2M160G2GC
CPU Test 218.18
GCD Loop 358.84 18.92 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 177.26 4.21 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 142.97 4.72 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 343.53 59.82 Mops/sec
Thread Test 271.99
Computation 374.77 7.59 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 213.46 9.18 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 197.92
System 254.69
Allocate 484.74 1.78 Malloc/sec
Fill 190.76 9275.05 MB/sec
Copy 223.52 4616.70 MB/sec
Stream 161.85
Copy 151.30 3124.98 MB/sec
Scale 158.25 3269.30 MB/sec
Add 172.43 3673.11 MB/sec
Triad 167.05 3573.55 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 246.51
Line 214.35 14.27 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 282.58 84.37 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 242.60 19.78 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 250.69 6.32 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 252.01 15.76 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 106.66
Spinning Squares 106.66 135.30 frames/sec
User Interface Test 375.48
Elements 375.48 1.72 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 279.94
Sequential 181.97
Uncached Write 162.62 99.84 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 156.95 88.80 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 143.47 41.99 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 401.47 201.77 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 606.46
Uncached Write 763.63 80.84 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 274.98 88.03 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 1667.56 11.82 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 952.58 176.76 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Anyone know what is the problem with mine? Is this because of the lack of TRIM support under SL?
 
This is mine after the latest firmware upgrade (the one that got pulled by Intel and enables TRIM under Windows 7):

Results 286.67
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.2 (10C540)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model MacBookPro5,3
Drive Type INTEL SSDSA2M160G2GC
Disk Test 286.67
Sequential 184.20
Uncached Write 165.83 101.82 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 171.39 96.97 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 134.71 39.42 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 412.01 207.07 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 646.05
Uncached Write 786.79 83.29 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 313.13 100.25 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 1432.36 10.15 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 972.02 180.37 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 
How can I download the firmware ? Intel doesn't have it on their site.

I'm assuming highe the results score, better it is ?
 
fehhkk, i did install the same firmware update that you mentioned but do you have any idea why mine doesn't even stack up with yours? Does mine slowing down because of the lack of TRIM?
What did you do to your SSD? Just firmware update?

FarSeide, Yes, Intel pulled off the firmware update after just 3 days after it released. I have the firmware, PM me your email so I can send it to you. Its less than 5 MB.
 
Here is mine. As expected it completely destroys the Samsung 256GB random benchmark but for some reason, with the exact same drive image, the boot time on my wifes 2.4GHz with the Samsung (36s) is faster than on my 2.66GHz with the Intel G2 (40s). Mine posts and gets to the apple sooner but then takes a longer time to load.


System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.2 (10C540)
Physical RAM 8192 MB
Model MacBookPro5,1
Drive Type INTEL SSDSA2M160G2GC

Disk Test 265.82
Sequential 171.69
Uncached Write 139.48 85.64 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 146.83 83.08 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 144.33 42.24 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 418.52 210.35 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 588.45
Uncached Write 696.69 73.75 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 268.88 86.08 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 1628.67 11.54 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 971.86 180.34 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 
macfrik said:
fehhkk, i did install the same firmware update that you mentioned but do you have any idea why mine doesn't even stack up with yours? Does mine slowing down because of the lack of TRIM?
What did you do to your SSD? Just firmware update?

FarSeide, Yes, Intel pulled off the firmware update after just 3 days after it released. I have the firmware, PM me your email so I can send it to you. Its less than 5 MB.
Click to expand...

XBench is highly inaccurate, it just gives you a wide spread of scores. Running it once doesn't cut it. My highest score was probably a 291. My lowest is around 208. Normal scores are 240-270.

Is that score what you normally get? Don't take your first result as a grain of salt, run it a couple times (with all applications in the background closed), and take your average reading.

The "banned" firmware upgrade definitely did speed up things a little bit. Before the firmware upgrade, I was getting 200-220s average. Now Im getting 250-270s, but OSX still doesn't have TRIM support for SSDs. The firmware sped up things due to changes to their read/write algorithms, but not because of TRIM.
 
I dont understand why my score is so low even with the latest firmware. I ran this last test after closing out all the apps and a reboot. It reaches no where near fehhkk's score...

Results 214.50
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.2 (10C540)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model MacBookPro5,3
Drive Type INTEL SSDSA2M160G2GC
CPU Test 216.77
GCD Loop 358.63 18.90 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 172.50 4.10 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 143.73 4.74 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 343.74 59.86 Mops/sec
Thread Test 344.33
Computation 620.60 12.57 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 238.26 10.25 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 192.64
System 250.90
Allocate 518.75 1.91 Malloc/sec
Fill 191.06 9289.98 MB/sec
Copy 208.53 4307.14 MB/sec
Stream 156.34
Copy 146.55 3026.88 MB/sec
Scale 151.50 3129.93 MB/sec
Add 165.61 3527.84 MB/sec
Triad 163.33 3493.98 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 245.53
Line 213.80 14.23 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 274.23 81.87 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 235.41 19.19 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 251.48 6.34 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 262.05 16.39 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 108.76
Spinning Squares 108.76 137.97 frames/sec
User Interface Test 384.73
Elements 384.73 1.77 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 246.34
Sequential 184.78
Uncached Write 171.54 105.32 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 167.64 94.85 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 134.88 39.47 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 410.16 206.15 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 369.41
Uncached Write 270.55 28.64 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 183.98 58.90 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 1499.75 10.63 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 971.28 180.23 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 
You scored a 246. That's perfectly fine.

Here's another one, which is pretty much the average disk score I get. Prior to this, it scored a 250. Your results are pretty much within the limits. If you were scoring under 200 consistently, now I would consider that an issue.

Results 279.14
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.2 (10C540)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model MacBookPro5,3
Drive Type INTEL SSDSA2M160G2GC
Disk Test 279.14
Sequential 179.18
Uncached Write 157.65 96.79 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 162.27 91.81 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 135.44 39.64 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 410.60 206.36 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 631.46
Uncached Write 788.55 83.48 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 299.32 95.82 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 1459.54 10.34 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 961.31 178.38 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 
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