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can someone xbench an 800 MHz ibook for us?

iBook benchmarking speed,

do you think there are a signficant improvements of speed in the different types of RAM such as PC100 or PC133 and if its CL2 or CL3? (especially for the 800 MHz iBook)


"Overall score was 62.07 with the unit plugged in. Looks to be just shy of a Ti 667 w/512! Not bad for $1600."

steveng56, what kind of RAM did you put on your 800 iBook?
 
Originally posted by AssassinOfGates

I think it does because on the dualies it mentions two CPUs (6th & 7th line)
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I know it detects them, but I'm still not so sure that it actually uses them.
If you look at the results from the 933Mhz QuickSilver (by DHagan4755) and my DP1Ghz QuickSilver the speed difference is not great, it looks like just the difference between a 933Mhz & a single 1Ghz.

DHagan4755 (933Mhz): CPU Test 113.42
edesignuk (DP1Ghz): CPU Test 129.49

I would certainly expect far better results from the DP1Ghz if XBench was optimized for dual CPU's.
 
Re: Here are the results for the Ibook 800 w/640 megs of ram

Originally posted by steveng56
Overall score was 62.07 with the unit plugged in. Looks to be just shy of a Ti 667 w/512! Not bad for $1600.
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maybe there's still life after all in the g3!

price > performance...not bad:)
 
Originally posted by pnz999
iBook benchmarking speed,

do you think there are a signficant improvements of speed in the different types of RAM such as PC100 or PC133 and if its CL2 or CL3? (especially for the 800 MHz iBook)


"Overall score was 62.07 with the unit plugged in. Looks to be just shy of a Ti 667 w/512! Not bad for $1600."

steveng56, what kind of RAM did you put on your 800 iBook?
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The memory I used was made by PNY and is pc133/CL3. I don't know if I should do the test agian in week or so because my Ibook seems to be getting noticably faster each day.
 
Hey, keep posting those XBench results! I'll run it when I get my GHz Superdrive Powerbook. Anyway, I made an updated chart with the XBench results--I included the overall score, cpu test, memory test, and quartz graphics test. I did not include the drive test...i'm not sure how full/fragmented your disks are. Anyway, I'll post a new chart every other day or so to summarize the benchmarks :)
 
Nice graph!

Thanks Over Achiever, this is getting to be quite interesting.
I now deffinatly don't think that it is dual CPU aware when carrying out the tests, there is no way a single 933 would beat a dual 867 if it was.
 
Re: Nice graph!

Originally posted by edesignuk

I now deffinatly don't think that it is dual CPU aware when carrying out the tests
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If you look at the "CPU Tests" that is not dual CPU aware... but if you look at the "thread tests" that is.
 
Originally posted by Over Achiever
Hey, keep posting those XBench results! I'll run it when I get my GHz Superdrive Powerbook. Anyway, I made an updated chart with the XBench results--I included the overall score, cpu test, memory test, and quartz graphics test. I did not include the drive test...i'm not sure how full/fragmented your disks are. Anyway, I'll post a new chart every other day or so to summarize the benchmarks :)
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Thanks for doing that. I'm the one with the 400mhz/PBG4. I guess I should get a PowerBook soon.
 
Just for ****s and giggles: a Pismo

I ran this test while browsing a few apps open, it probably made a difference, but who cares? Not me - I am still happy with it.

Results 39.39
System Info
Xbench Version 1.0b2
System Version 10.2.2
Physical RAM 640 MB
Processor PowerPC,750@0 [400 MHz]
CPU Test 48.97
GCD Recursion 36.80 1.44 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 54.37 47.04 Mflop/sec
Floating Point Library 55.73 2.50 Mops/sec
Thread Test 27.39
Computation 22.39 180.34 Kops/sec, 4 threads
Memory Contention 23.68 74.91 MB/sec, 2 threads
Lock Contention 36.09 453.08 Klocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 38.29
System 41.24
Allocate 64.38 33.87 Kalloc/sec
Fill 48.34 277.20 MB/sec
Copy 10.99 65.96 MB/sec
Stream 35.34
Copy 35.44 141.76 MB/sec
Scale 35.44 141.74 MB/sec
Add 35.52 142.07 MB/sec
Triad 34.97 139.86 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 42.09
Line 38.10 969.94 lines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 45.55 3.20 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 45.96 1.06 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 41.63 452.32 beziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 39.22 660.52 chars/sec
User Interface Test 40.23
Elements 40.23 12.87 refresh/sec
 
More results

Results 144.71
System Info
Xbench Version 1.0b2
System Version 10.2.2
Physical RAM 2048 MB
Processor PowerPC,G4@0 [1250 MHz]
Processor PowerPC,G4@1 [1250 MHz]
CPU Test 159.04
GCD Recursion 156.50 6.11 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 161.34 139.62 Mflop/sec
AltiVec Basic 165.89 856.30 Mflop/sec
Floating Point Library 152.41 6.84 Mops/sec
Thread Test 143.31
Computation 159.42 1.28 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Memory Contention 114.90 363.42 MB/sec, 2 threads
Lock Contention 155.60 1.95 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 180.24
System 224.46
Allocate 154.63 81.34 Kalloc/sec
Fill 378.19 2168.70 MB/sec
Copy 140.55 843.33 MB/sec
Stream 136.03
Copy 135.44 541.75 MB/sec [altivec]
Scale 138.40 553.60 MB/sec [altivec]
Add 141.44 565.78 MB/sec [altivec]
Triad 128.83 515.34 MB/sec [altivec]
Quartz Graphics Test 125.15
Line 125.85 3.20 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 109.78 7.72 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 104.01 2.40 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 146.31 1.59 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 139.80 2.35 Kchars/sec
User Interface Test 156.13
Elements 156.13 49.96 refresh/sec
Disk Test 104.39
Sequential 100.56
Uncached Sequential Write 98.34 43.57 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Sequential Read 102.78 44.40 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 108.22
Uncached Random Write 106.23 24.97 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Random Read 110.21 22.15 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 
Re: More results

Originally posted by npm
Code: 
Results	144.71	
	System Info		
		Xbench Version		1.0b2
		System Version		10.2.2
		Physical RAM		2048 MB
		Processor		PowerPC,G4@0 [1250 MHz]
		Processor		PowerPC,G4@1 [1250 MHz]
	CPU Test	159.04	
		GCD Recursion	156.50	6.11 Mops/sec
		Floating Point Basic	161.34	139.62 Mflop/sec
		AltiVec Basic	165.89	856.30 Mflop/sec
		Floating Point Library	152.41	6.84 Mops/sec
	Thread Test	143.31	
		Computation	159.42	1.28 Mops/sec, 4 threads
		Memory Contention	114.90	363.42 MB/sec, 2 threads
		Lock Contention	155.60	1.95 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
	Memory Test	180.24	
		System	224.46	
			Allocate	154.63	81.34 Kalloc/sec
			Fill	378.19	2168.70 MB/sec
			Copy	140.55	843.33 MB/sec
		Stream	136.03	
			Copy	135.44	541.75 MB/sec [altivec]
			Scale	138.40	553.60 MB/sec [altivec]
			Add	141.44	565.78 MB/sec [altivec]
			Triad	128.83	515.34 MB/sec [altivec]
	Quartz Graphics Test	125.15	
		Line	125.85	3.20 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
		Rectangle	109.78	7.72 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
		Circle	104.01	2.40 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
		Bezier	146.31	1.59 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
		Text	139.80	2.35 Kchars/sec
	User Interface Test	156.13	
		Elements	156.13	49.96 refresh/sec
	Disk Test	104.39	
		Sequential	100.56	
			Uncached Sequential Write	98.34	43.57 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Sequential Read	102.78	44.40 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Random	108.22	
			Uncached Random Write	106.23	24.97 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Random Read	110.21	22.15 MB/sec [256K blocks]
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Wey-hey! DP1.25Ghz maxed out with 2Gb RAM! Sweeeet! :)
 
PB G4 400

I dont think that G4 400 got that score. I mean, the Quartz graphics test is about the same as the iBook, and the iBook has 4x the graphics memory...my dads PB G3 Pismo 500 with 640MB of RAM is coming soon...the test that is
 
Re: PB G4 400

Originally posted by MacAztec
I dont think that G4 400 got that score. I mean, the Quartz graphics test is about the same as the iBook, and the iBook has 4x the graphics memory...my dads PB G3 Pismo 500 with 640MB of RAM is coming soon...the test that is
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What kind of frickin' thing is that to say!!!! I WISH I had a better PowerBook. I know what PowerBook I have and this is nothing more then the 1st gen. PBG4!!!!!.
 
This is with my PBG3 Pismo 400mhz and 256mb

Results 42.36
System Info
Xbench Version 1.0b2
System Version 10.2.1
Physical RAM 256 MB
Processor PowerPC,750@0 [400 MHz]
CPU Test 53.00
GCD Recursion 38.74 1.51 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 58.53 50.65 Mflop/sec
Floating Point Library 61.74 2.77 Mops/sec
Thread Test 32.50
Computation 25.91 208.73 Kops/sec, 4 threads
Memory Contention 31.14 98.50 MB/sec, 2 threads
Lock Contention 40.45 507.80 Klocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 40.57
System 47.66
Allocate 73.10 38.45 Kalloc/sec
Fill 58.22 333.88 MB/sec
Copy 11.67 70.03 MB/sec
Stream 33.47
Copy 33.17 132.67 MB/sec
Scale 33.14 132.55 MB/sec
Add 33.76 135.04 MB/sec
Triad 33.82 135.30 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 43.35
Line 32.95 838.86 lines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 52.92 3.72 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 51.45 1.19 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 34.10 370.55 beziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 45.31 763.07 chars/sec
User Interface Test 48.32
Elements 48.32 15.46 refresh/sec
Disk Test 36.40
Sequential 33.51
Uncached Sequential Write 32.71 14.49 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Sequential Read 34.31 14.82 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 39.28
Uncached Random Write 36.00 8.46 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Random Read 42.55 8.55 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 
My Results

Here are the Results from a 500MHz Pismo w/640MB of RAM:

Results 46.72
System Info
Xbench Version 1.0b2
System Version 10.2.2
Physical RAM 640 MB
Processor PowerPC,750@0 [500 MHz]
CPU Test 63.43
GCD Recursion 48.66 1.90 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 66.61 57.63 Mflop/sec
Floating Point Library 75.02 3.37 Mops/sec
Thread Test 35.93
Computation 31.70 255.38 Kops/sec, 4 threads
Memory Contention 26.79 84.73 MB/sec, 2 threads
Lock Contention 49.31 619.04 Klocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 40.58
System 44.71
Allocate 90.88 47.81 Kalloc/sec
Fill 30.52 175.01 MB/sec
Copy 12.73 76.40 MB/sec
Stream 36.45
Copy 36.42 145.69 MB/sec
Scale 36.07 144.28 MB/sec
Add 36.79 147.18 MB/sec
Triad 36.50 146.02 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 54.20
Line 47.51 1.21 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 56.23 3.96 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 58.25 1.34 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 56.60 615.03 beziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 52.40 882.42 chars/sec
User Interface Test 53.06
Elements 53.06 16.98 refresh/sec
Disk Test 33.14
Sequential 28.58
Uncached Sequential Write 28.47 12.62 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Sequential Read 28.68 12.39 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 37.70
Uncached Random Write 33.44 7.86 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Random Read 41.96 8.43 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 
Results

Results on G4 500MHz Sawtooth with Radeon 8500 and 768MB of RAM:

Results 66.27
System Info
Xbench Version 1.0b2
System Version 10.2.2
Physical RAM 768 MB
Processor PowerPC,G4@0 [500 MHz]
CPU Test 87.48
GCD Recursion 46.45 1.81 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 80.23 69.42 Mflop/sec
AltiVec Basic 137.03 707.41 Mflop/sec
Floating Point Library 86.22 3.87 Mops/sec
Thread Test 51.54
Computation 32.99 265.77 Kops/sec, 4 threads
Memory Contention 74.77 236.51 MB/sec, 2 threads
Lock Contention 46.86 588.23 Klocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 78.08
System 76.28
Allocate 92.72 48.77 Kalloc/sec
Fill 99.11 568.35 MB/sec
Copy 37.01 222.08 MB/sec
Stream 79.87
Copy 78.73 314.92 MB/sec [altivec]
Scale 78.44 313.77 MB/sec [altivec]
Add 81.70 326.80 MB/sec [altivec]
Triad 80.62 322.47 MB/sec [altivec]
Quartz Graphics Test 65.35
Line 68.37 1.74 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 69.45 4.89 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 61.89 1.43 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 69.04 750.19 beziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 57.99 976.53 chars/sec
User Interface Test 60.86
Elements 60.86 19.47 refresh/sec
Disk Test 54.33
Sequential 46.04
Uncached Sequential Write 45.53 20.17 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Sequential Read 46.56 20.11 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 62.62
Uncached Random Write 58.69 13.80 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Random Read 66.56 13.38 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 
WHOA!

Here is MY (in my room) G4 400 Sawtooth w/768MB of RAM and Radeon Mac Edition:

Results 72.09
System Info
Xbench Version 1.0b2
System Version 10.2.2
Physical RAM 768 MB
Processor PowerPC,G4@0 [400 MHz]
CPU Test 80.46
GCD Recursion 39.58 1.55 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 75.24 65.11 Mflop/sec
AltiVec Basic 136.89 706.70 Mflop/sec
Floating Point Library 70.14 3.15 Mops/sec
Thread Test 60.12
Computation 26.61 214.42 Kops/sec, 4 threads
Memory Contention 112.31 355.25 MB/sec, 2 threads
Lock Contention 41.43 520.07 Klocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 81.95
System 69.84
Allocate 76.55 40.27 Kalloc/sec
Fill 92.14 528.36 MB/sec
Copy 40.84 245.04 MB/sec
Stream 94.06
Copy 90.95 363.79 MB/sec [altivec]
Scale 91.15 364.60 MB/sec [altivec]
Add 97.35 389.39 MB/sec [altivec]
Triad 96.81 387.23 MB/sec [altivec]
Quartz Graphics Test 57.46
Line 57.57 1.47 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 55.50 3.90 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 59.48 1.37 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 58.60 636.78 beziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 56.12 945.08 chars/sec
User Interface Test 54.48
Elements 54.48 17.43 refresh/sec
Disk Test 98.07
Sequential 91.78
Uncached Sequential Write 84.24 37.32 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Sequential Read 99.32 42.90 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 104.37
Uncached Random Write 104.13 24.48 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Random Read 104.62 21.02 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 
lol, thanks i found it, and i also just realized there is a link in the first post.

RESULTS:
Results 88.95
System Info
Xbench Version 1.0b2
System Version 10.2.2
Physical RAM 512 MB
Processor PowerPC,G4@0 [867 MHz]

CPU Test 106.84
GCD Recursion 94.49 3.69 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 128.52 111.21 Mflop/sec
AltiVec Basic 104.92 541.78 Mflop/sec
Floating Point Library 99.45 4.47 Mops/sec

Thread Test 80.71
Computation 55.88 450.17 Kops/sec, 4 threads
Memory Contention 127.42 403.04 MB/sec, 2 threads
Lock Contention 58.81 738.27 Klocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 113.02
System 115.49
Allocate 108.74 57.20 Kalloc/sec
Fill 176.14 1010.05 MB/sec
Copy 61.59 369.52 MB/sec
Stream 110.56
Copy 108.26 433.05 MB/sec [altivec]
Scale 109.42 437.70 MB/sec [altivec]
Add 115.69 462.77 MB/sec [altivec]
Triad 108.85 435.38 MB/sec [altivec]

Quartz Graphics Test 89.19
Line 89.27 2.27 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 67.45 4.75 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 88.59 2.04 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 99.85 1.08 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 100.80 1.70 Kchars/sec

User Interface Test 93.15
Elements 93.15 29.81 refresh/sec

Disk Test 50.78
Sequential 48.65
Uncached Sequential Write 47.81 21.18 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Sequential Read 49.50 21.38 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 52.90
Uncached Random Write 49.41 11.62 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Random Read 56.38 11.33 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 
Updated Chart

Alright, I updated my graphs with the new info and I added the threaded test since it might take advantage of dual processors.

My post was here

This is really cool...I'm thinking of starting another thread that displays graphs for each test separately as well as together...if a mod would like to make it a sticky, that'd be great! What do ya'll think?

Should I make separate plots for each type of computer?

[EDIT] I just realized that we haven't yet answered the point of this thread. We've only had one new iBook...any others out there?[/EDIT]
 
Here's another new iBook

Here's the stats for my new 800MHz iBook with 384MB RAM:

Results 59.11
System Info
Xbench Version 1.0b2
System Version 10.2.2
Physical RAM 384 MB
Processor PowerPC,750@0 [800 MHz]
Code: 
CPU Test 92.47
  GCD Recursion 66.12 2.58 Mops/sec
  Floating Point Basic 89.61 77.55 Mflop/sec
  Floating Point Library 121.67 5.46 Mops/sec

Thread Test 55.12
  Computation 51.36 413.77 Kops/sec, 4 threads
  Memory Contention 35.37 111.89 MB/sec, 2 threads
  Lock Contention 78.64 987.19 Klocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 51.39
  System 64.36
    Allocate 154.90 81.48 Kalloc/sec
    Fill 25.76 147.70 MB/sec
    Copy 12.43 74.59 MB/sec
  Stream 38.42
    Copy 38.22 152.88 MB/sec
    Scale 38.05 152.22 MB/sec
    Add 38.80 155.21 MB/sec
    Triad 38.62 154.47 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 58.18
  Line 64.82 1.65 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
  Rectangle 59.14 4.16 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
  Circle 48.74 1.12 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
  Bezier 58.30 633.48 beziers/sec [50% alpha]
  Text 59.88 1.01 Kchars/sec

User Interface Test 52.37
  Elements 52.37 16.76 refresh/sec

Disk Test 45.15
  Sequential 43.23
    Uncached Sequential Write 44.14 19.56 MB/sec [256K blocks]
    Uncached Sequential Read 42.31 18.28 MB/sec [256K blocks]
  Random 47.08
    Uncached Random Write 43.36 10.19 MB/sec [256K blocks]
    Uncached Random Read 50.80 10.21 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 
G3 has life in it indeed!

If you look at the CPU score for my above post, it was 92.47 which is certainly within striking distance of the G4 benchmarks posted in this thread. I have a feeling the 100MHz bus is the major bottleneck. I mean, take a look at the Memory scores on the iBooks...

If Apple could just bump up the bus speed to 133MHz, the G3 is going to be just fine as the iBook CPU probably into 2004 (probably around the time the TiBooks get a 970 and the iBooks go to G4).

My user experience with Jaguar on my iBook is already pretty snappy (granted I'm not a gamer or a pro graphics user), but imagine it with a 1GHz+ G3, a 133MHz bus, a Radeon 9000 64MB, and 768MB RAM (they have to go to 256MB built-in eventually...).
 
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