Benchmarks Tiger vs Panther on a 1.6 G5

[adamfilip]

Here are some benchmarks ive run on tiger the WWDC developer release and panther 10.3.4
same resolutions same settings

Cinabench 2003 - G5 Edition - Panther
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CINEBENCH 2003 v1
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Tester : adam filipowicz

Processor : g5 1.6
MHz : 1600
Number of CPUs : 1
Operating System : panther 10.3.4

Graphics Card : fx 5200
Resolution : 1152x864
Color Depth : millions

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Rendering (Single CPU): 218 CB-CPU
Rendering (Multiple CPU): --- CB-CPU

Ci
Shading (CINEMA 4D) : 208 CB-GFX
Shading (OpenGL Software Lighting) : 590 CB-GFX
Shading (OpenGL Hardware Lighting) : 950 CB-GFX

OpenGL Speedup: 4.57

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single cpu rendering is 120.8

Opengl hardware
scene1 12.45 sec 8.2 fps
scene 2 4.17 sec 21.6 fps
1471834 poly/sec

opengl software light test
scene 1 18.52 sec 5.5 fps
scene2 7.39 sec 12.2 fps
830521 poly/sec

C4D SHADING TEST
scene 1 49.71 sec 2.1fps
scene2 22.73 sec 4.0fps
270020 poly / sec

Cinabench 2003 - G5 Edition - Tiger
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CINEBENCH 2003 v1
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Tester : Adam filipowicz

Processor : g5 1.6
MHz : 1600
Number of CPUs : 1
Operating System : 10.4 Tiger

Graphics Card : fx 5200
Resolution : 1152x864
Color Depth : millions

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Rendering (Single CPU): 135 CB-CPU
Rendering (Multiple CPU): --- CB-CPU


Shading (CINEMA 4D) : 134 CB-GFX
Shading (OpenGL Software Lighting) : 355 CB-GFX
Shading (OpenGL Hardware Lighting) : 712 CB-GFX

OpenGL Speedup: 5.30

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single cpu rendering is 194.9

Opengl hardware
scene1 18.1 sec 5.6 fps
scene 2 5.09 sec 17.7 fps
1204622 poly/sec

opengl software light test
scene 1 30.46 sec 3.3 fps
scene2 12.44 sec 7.2 fps
493372 poly/sec

C4D SHADING TEST
scene 1 75.29 sec 1.4fps
scene2 36.5 sec 2.5fps
168152 poly / sec

Xbench - panther
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Results 160.60
System Info
Xbench Version 1.1.3
System Version 10.3.4 (7H63)
Physical RAM 1280 MB
Model PowerMac7,2
Processor PowerPC 970 @ 1.60 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 512K @ 1.60 GHz
Bus Frequency 800 MHz
Video Card GeForce FX 5200
Drive Type WDC WD740GD-32FLA0
CPU Test 150.11
GCD Loop 90.18 3.52 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 252.91 914.61 Mflop/sec
AltiVec Basic 109.05 3.17 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 169.44 2.63 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 313.09 12.53 Mops/sec
Thread Test 91.59
Computation 60.22 812.92 Kops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 191.21 2.40 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 244.98
System 256.50
Allocate 589.34 384.43 Kalloc/sec
Fill 185.37 1475.57 MB/sec
Copy 217.17 1085.85 MB/sec
Stream 234.44
Copy 199.37 1457.40 MB/sec [G5]
Scale 206.76 1525.91 MB/sec [G5]
Add 270.94 1733.99 MB/sec [G5]
Triad 284.21 1736.55 MB/sec [G5]
Quartz Graphics Test 191.85
Line 179.61 4.57 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 163.11 11.48 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 200.42 4.62 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 174.08 1.89 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 275.53 4.49 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 179.01
Spinning Squares 179.01 125.27 frames/sec
User Interface Test 223.27
Elements 223.27 71.81 refresh/sec
Disk Test 150.45
Sequential 161.26
Uncached Write 173.47 72.31 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 156.51 64.09 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 164.94 26.11 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 151.79 61.33 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 141.00
Uncached Write 124.75 1.87 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 162.98 36.76 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 134.18 0.89 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 147.84 30.43 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Xbench - Tiger
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Results 123.22
System Info
Xbench Version 1.1.3
System Version 10.4 Pre-release (8A162)
Physical RAM 1280 MB
Model PowerMac7,2
Processor PowerPC 970 @ 1.60 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 512K @ 1.60 GHz
Bus Frequency 800 MHz
Video Card GeForce FX 5200
Drive Type WDC WD740GD-32FLA0
CPU Test 114.66
GCD Loop 66.85 2.61 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 189.30 684.56 Mflop/sec
AltiVec Basic 86.30 2.51 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 136.50 2.12 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 224.61 8.99 Mops/sec
Thread Test 82.72
Computation 54.99 742.33 Kops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 166.86 2.09 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 220.73
System 219.03
Allocate 420.88 274.54 Kalloc/sec
Fill 171.66 1366.44 MB/sec
Copy 181.96 909.81 MB/sec
Stream 222.46
Copy 188.55 1378.30 MB/sec [G5]
Scale 192.44 1420.20 MB/sec [G5]
Add 260.54 1667.48 MB/sec [G5]
Triad 274.56 1677.55 MB/sec [G5]
Quartz Graphics Test 168.11
Line 164.47 4.19 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 167.03 11.75 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 186.42 4.30 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 135.09 1.47 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 203.70 3.32 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 102.57
Spinning Squares 102.57 71.78 frames/sec
User Interface Test 176.80
Elements 176.80 56.87 refresh/sec
Disk Test 98.88
Sequential 87.23
Uncached Write 150.84 62.88 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 105.61 43.25 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 75.79 12.00 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 60.37 24.39 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 114.12
Uncached Write 95.33 1.43 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 135.66 30.60 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 102.34 0.68 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 134.83 27.75 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Whatcha thing

Tiger is an early beta and not the one Steve demo'd

 

[Laslo Panaflex]

These results make sense to me, tiger can be up to a year away from release. I would not think Apple would release an OS that performs more poorly than the current one.

Maybe the benchmarks aren't optomized/compatible with tiger (Xbench at least). Anyway, Tiger is too early to judge its overall performance compared to panther.