Hi everyone,
I recently got my new 2011 iMac with the 3.4Ghz i7 (2600).
After I ran some benchmarks, i found the i7 doesn't perform as it should
First the scores, for people who are searching how the i7 iMac wth HD6970 2GB performs:
3DMark06: around 20800 points
3DMark11: around 3200 points
3DMark06 and 3DMark11 warns me for having a lower score than average (I'm not the only one, found some other topics here where this is mentioned too). For 3DMark11 for example, it gives me a Physics score of P7754 and the PhysicsTest gives 24,62 frames per second. However according to 3DMark the score should be around P8900 and Google confirms. I even found most people with an i7-2600 are getting 26fps or higher in the PhysicsTest.
Why is this? Here are also a lot of people who find their Geekbench' score dissapointing too. Why does the iMac performs slower? Is it because of Apple's inefficient Logic Board? Or is it because it uses the new Z68-chipset which performs slower or stil needs better chipset drivers?
I recently got my new 2011 iMac with the 3.4Ghz i7 (2600).
After I ran some benchmarks, i found the i7 doesn't perform as it should
First the scores, for people who are searching how the i7 iMac wth HD6970 2GB performs:
3DMark06: around 20800 points
3DMark11: around 3200 points
3DMark06 and 3DMark11 warns me for having a lower score than average (I'm not the only one, found some other topics here where this is mentioned too). For 3DMark11 for example, it gives me a Physics score of P7754 and the PhysicsTest gives 24,62 frames per second. However according to 3DMark the score should be around P8900 and Google confirms. I even found most people with an i7-2600 are getting 26fps or higher in the PhysicsTest.
Why is this? Here are also a lot of people who find their Geekbench' score dissapointing too. Why does the iMac performs slower? Is it because of Apple's inefficient Logic Board? Or is it because it uses the new Z68-chipset which performs slower or stil needs better chipset drivers?
