Resolved Advantages of a Radeon 9800 Pro vs. Radeon 9600XT?

[zen.state]

In terms of 2D you are not going to see any improvement there with the 9800. It's 3D where better GPU's show their worth. OpenMark is a 3D test. Xbench does 2D tests so thats totally the wrong benchmark to look for a boost in. I also personally have no faith in Xbench scores. It's a complete inconsistent joke of a benchmark.

Any Core Image capable card is going to have very similar if not identical 2D performance. So 9600, 9700, 9800, x800, GF 5200, 6200, 6600, 6800 etc will all be similar in 2D.

BTW.. GeekBench doesn't do any graphic scores at all. No hard drive either. Only CPU, FPU and memory are tested.

The best graphic card benchmarks for PowerPC are either gaming, OpenMark or Cinebench 9.5.

 

[alexreich]

In terms of 2D you are not going to see any improvement there with the 9800. It's 3D where better GPU's show their worth. OpenMark is a 3D test. Xbench does 2D tests so thats totally the wrong benchmark to look for a boost in. I also personally have no faith in Xbench scores. It's a complete inconsistent joke of a benchmark.

Any Core Image capable card is going to have very similar if not identical 2D performance. So 9600, 9700, 9800, x800, GF 5200, 6200, 6600, 6800 etc will all be similar in 2D.

BTW.. GeekBench doesn't do any graphic scores at all. No hard drive either. Only CPU, FPU and memory are tested.

The best graphic card benchmarks for PowerPC are either gaming, OpenMark or Cinebench 9.5.

Thanks for the valuable info Zen. I guess I'll have to get Xbench off of my machines as it seems to be very unreliable in scoring. I actually scored higher on my G5 than I did on my Mac mini a few times, and then my Mac mini would blow the G5 out of the water. Crazy stuff.

3D gaming has improved quite well with the 9800 Pro. I can really see it shine there.

 

[Intell]

XBench is still good for one thing. Hard drive testing. I've yet to find a good accurate replacement. Even that BlackMagic SpeedDisk Test thing in the App Store that everyone seems to love gives me very poor and unrealistic results.

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

XBench is still good for one thing. Hard drive testing. I've yet to find a good accurate replacement. Even that BlackMagic SpeedDisk Test thing in the App Store that everyone seems to love gives me very poor and unrealistic results.

Try AJA System Test. In my experience it always gives a consistent score and is a pure disk test.

 

[Intell]

I've had that give me problems with external drives or when the Mac is Netbooted.