Highest PowerPC OpenMark score IN THE WORLD: what is it? I think I have it :)

[Jethryn Freyman]

Since cooling and an SSD will clearly affect the performance of the graphics card... 🙄

I know, I'm hoping against hope. e-penis you know, man 😉

 

[wobegong]

There's another Openmark thread in here somewhere and someone with an X800 (overclocked with the ATI utility) got similar scores to this guy (20+k) - Its the overclocking, at stock a 7800 is a much better card but there's no way to overclock an nVidia on a Mac and it's the huge overclocking potential of the ATI cards that allows this. I'm a 7800 user by the way so I have no axe to grind for ATI 😉

Re the SSD and CPU statements Openmark is 100% GPU ONLY so CPU and other components are TOTALLY irrelevant - So yes an overclocked X800 etc in a 1.8Ghz is certainly capable of getting a (significantly) higher score than a 2.7/quad 2.5 with a 7800GTX etc.

My score in Openmark with a 7800GTX is a little over 16k. Look up the other thread, a guy there got I believe 23k with his X800.

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

There's another Openmark thread in here somewhere and someone with an X800 (overclocked with the ATI utility) got similar scores to this guy (20+k) - Its the overclocking, at stock a 7800 is a much better card but there's no way to overclock an nVidia on a Mac and it's the huge overclocking potential of the ATI cards that allows this. I'm a 7800 user by the way so I have no axe to grind for ATI 😉

Re the SSD and CPU statements Openmark is 100% GPU ONLY so CPU and other components are TOTALLY irrelevant - So yes an overclocked X800 etc in a 1.8Ghz is certainly capable of getting a (significantly) higher score than a 2.7/quad 2.5 with a 7800GTX etc.

My score in Openmark with a 7800GTX is a little over 16k. Look up the other thread, a guy there got I believe 23k with his X800.

Yeah I've actually run into horrible performance issues with special high-res builds of the Original Quake because it totally fills my 256MB of VRAM and need to start swapping; though I don't know any PPC card that can actually use 512MB of VRAM. If it could I'd be all over any 7800 I could get my hands on, until then, I'll rely on my overclocking to enlarge my current e-penis 🙂

If you can link me to those threads that'd be cool, over 23K I'm impressed, and yeah, I doubt an SSD and a little more RAM would help an OpenGL test at all but one can hope... at least for real life game performance, maybe a few more FPS....

Either way I'm still enjoying my lead in this MacRumors thread <3

EDIT: I believe that my FireGL scored about 14,700K on OpenMark at stock speeds, which actually at a lower core clock than ATI specified for their PC Radeon and FireGL RV,420 cards.

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

Mhm, Sure it is. I would like to see your score pinned against a G5 Quad w/ X1900XT. I do find it strange that, in light of your "Worlds Highest OpenMark Score" that you fail to run a slightly modified Quake 1 Engine at anywhere above 1FPS. Bravo. I would like to see a GeekBench score.

LOL, fail.

I have determined that any struggles in a Quake source port are due to using fully uncompressed [needlessly] textures which far surpass my 256MB of VRAM. Also, the fact I have a 1.8GHz [compared to 2.7] CPU, and it is single-threaded.

So yes, at the least I do claim hold of the highest PowerPC OpenMark score.

FYI, Quake DarkPlaces can also run at 1,117 FPS at its' best. And "slightly modified"??? Dude, you have no idea what you're talking about. Basically rebuilt fround the ground up, ray tracing for lighting, etc, unlimited max quality particle effects... and minimal optimization of these.

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

K so I recently ran OpenMark on a current model [as of right now] 13" Macbook Air, 8GB memory, Intel HD 4000 graphics with 512MB memory, it scored about 20,500 [can't remember the exact number, it it was between 20,000 and 21,000], but yes.

I kind of smiled.

An 8 year old Mac matching a current Mac in 3D performance.

OK, Geekbench/CPU score was 6,900 vs 1,600, but still, nice to know that great engineering can endure for a decade.

<3 to PowerPC.

 

[thorns]

Except that OpenMark scores are unaffected by CPU architecture and only depend on GPU architecture. So it's more of an ATI/nVidia thing...

 

[GermanyChris]

K so I recently ran OpenMark on a current model [as of right now] 13" Macbook Air, 8GB memory, Intel HD 4000 graphics with 512MB memory, it scored about 20,500 [can't remember the exact number, it it was between 20,000 and 21,000], but yes.

I kind of smiled.

An 8 year old Mac matching a current Mac in 3D performance.

OK, Geekbench/CPU score was 6,900 vs 1,600, but still, nice to know that great engineering can endure for a decade.

<3 to PowerPC.

I ran it on my '09 17" and got 32,128..

 

[wobegong]

I was surprised to find out my MBP (Radeon 6490) scores almost exactly the same (16k) as my 7800GTX in my PM, was expecting it to be higher though of course it is only a fairly weedy mid/low range laptop chip.

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

Out of curiosity, I recently OpenMark'd a current maxed out Macbook Air, it scored ~20,500. Anybody here got any Intel Macs as well with much newer but less "high end" GPUs got any OpenMark scores to share?

 

[666sheep]

Out of curiosity, I recently OpenMark'd a current maxed out Macbook Air, it scored ~20,500. Anybody here got any Intel Macs as well with much newer but less "high end" GPUs got any OpenMark scores to share?

Here you go: Mac Pro 1,1 with 5850 1GB

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

[delete] - next time i shall read the post before posting 🙂