Extremely low Cinebench scores on 2.4 uMBP

[Advil]

I was told to run Cinebench to diagnose an issue with games running extremely slow with my computer.

According to the person who told me to do this, normal scores are:

The 9400M should get 3500-4000 in Cinebench and the 9600M GT should get 5500

However my scores were much, much lower than that. I ran the tests 4 times each with nothing else running in the background. Here are results

What should I do?

 

[Magick]

Were any other apps running? did you call Apple?

I get nearly 6000 on my 2.8 June '09 model using the 9600.

 

[Tim018]

Very Strange....

While I am quite new to the mac world, I get a 4700 ish on my open gl test (2.53 ghz, 4gb, 9600m 512) and which i know is about proper for a 9600. I know the extra 256 mb vram will help a bit on the score, but not nearly to that extent, my suggestion would be an apple store and ask about it. They should atleast give you some suggestions on what to do to fix it if not take it in for diagnostics/replacement.

Anyway, just my 2 cents...

Tim

 

[ichiban06]

While I am quite new to the mac world, I get a 4700 ish on my open gl test (2.53 ghz, 4gb, 9600m 512) and which i know is about proper for a 9600. I know the extra 256 mb vram will help a bit on the score, but not nearly to that extent, my suggestion would be an apple store and ask about it. They should atleast give you some suggestions on what to do to fix it if not take it in for diagnostics/replacement.

Anyway, just my 2 cents...

Tim

I just did a benchmark with the 9600M and got 5682, so you must of got 4700 using the 9400M as I get 4814.

 

[Advil]

5682 on the same card? hmm. what can cause this?

 

[nks06]

Yeah, I'm scoring low too... I'm getting 2887 for the single core, and 4894 for multiple cores. I'm running the latest uMBP (2.66 4gb 10.6.2) and I KNOW it should be a lot faster. Any thoughts? I did a fresh install of 10.6.2 yesterday, so I know it's nothing I've installed

Any thoughts?

 

[Sneakz]

Are you running off the battery, or plugged in? (9600M GT clocks lower when running of the battery)

 

[DAMNiatx]

Are you running off the battery, or plugged in? (9600M GT clocks lower when running of the battery)

+1

 

[ayeying]

Yeah, I'm scoring low too... I'm getting 2887 for the single core, and 4894 for multiple cores. I'm running the latest uMBP (2.66 4gb 10.6.2) and I KNOW it should be a lot faster. Any thoughts? I did a fresh install of 10.6.2 yesterday, so I know it's nothing I've installed

Any thoughts?

Snow Leopard has worse OpenGL performance than Leopard.

 

[nks06]

No, I was plugged in when I did the test. I also just ran an XBench test. 74.83??? That's well below the avg on the XBench website (119)

Results 74.83
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.2 (10C540)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model MacBookPro5,3
Drive Type ST9320423ASG
CPU Test 184.38
GCD Loop 310.74 16.38 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 143.92 3.42 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 124.69 4.11 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 285.06 49.64 Mops/sec
Thread Test 332.60
Computation 480.79 9.74 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 254.23 10.94 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 181.23
System 216.82
Allocate 413.11 1.52 Malloc/sec
Fill 175.83 8549.16 MB/sec
Copy 174.58 3605.90 MB/sec
Stream 155.67
Copy 146.16 3018.84 MB/sec
Scale 148.55 3068.96 MB/sec
Add 166.91 3555.56 MB/sec
Triad 163.14 3489.86 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 205.62
Line 172.57 11.49 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 237.20 70.82 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 204.19 16.64 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 209.68 5.29 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 215.56 13.48 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 96.59
Spinning Squares 96.59 122.53 frames/sec
User Interface Test 233.14
Elements 233.14 1.07 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 16.64
Sequential 15.11
Uncached Write 67.99 41.75 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 43.39 24.55 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 6.09 1.78 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 15.91 8.00 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 18.53
Uncached Write 6.98 0.74 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 48.46 15.51 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 28.15 0.20 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 60.74 11.27 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

[nks06]

Whoa... I just realized what may be the issue?

I think my hard drive may be defective? Are the scores low?

http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=414937&doc2=1&setCookie=true