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Mac Pro 2009 w/ GTX 285 Xbench results

Chad H

Chad H

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Hey guys,
I finally got my 2009 Mac Pro in.(Stats in signature) So, after getting everything up and running I decided to run Xbench and thought I would post the results. Now, this is after I installed 6GB of RAM from OWC and the Nvidia GTX285 graphics card from Apple. The GTX285 is using the latest driver off of Nvidia's website. I gotta ask one quick question can anybody look at the picture of my temps and see if those are okay? The temps screenshot was taken while playing watching a youtube video, typing this, and listening to music in iTunes. BTW, the room temperature is 74 degree's Fahrenheit not Celsius. :)
 

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Are those numbers on par for the system/graphics card I have? I didn't run the test in every department.
 
I would like to see xbench score with same mac pro but with the latest ATI graphics card. I can't make up my mind between the nvidia or the ATI due to both having issues. If anyone has this mac but with the ATI card from apple, please post your results to help me decide. tnks
 
Suppose your right about that. Cinebench would be a better test for the graphics card. Chad H, would you mind running a cinebench 10 test and post your results?
 
bearcatrp said:
Suppose your right about that. Cinebench would be a better test for the graphics card. Chad H, would you mind running a cinebench 10 test and post your results?
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That's not going to be very accurate.

"The most current version is MAXON CINEBENCH R10 (August 1, 2007)"

2007. A LOT has changed since then.
 
These are the same drivers. Nvidia posted them July 2nd. Does anybody know of a better test? Xbench varies way to much. I get anything from 250 to 265 running the same parameters.
 
Alright, I'm downloading now. Will post the results shortly. Im encoding some video, so it could be an hour or so.
 
Here is the cinebench score on my 1st gen mac pro w/7300GT:
-------------2.0 quad 2.33 octo
Render cpu 2184 2534
multi cpu 7457 14834
open gl 2867 2863

2008 2.8 mac pro
render cpu 3232
multi cpu 18245
open gl 6093
 
Well here they are. Let me know if this is good or bad.

Rendering 1 cpu 3048
Rendering X cpu 13107
OpenGL Standard 5197
 
Okay, after researching and comparing numbers I began to fear my computer might be a weak "model". So after looking at every aspect I failed to notice I had a random program running that was constantly taxing the cpu at 20 to 25%. Looks like it was ffmpegx that kept trying to run. Anyway, after force quitting the app I ran Cinebench again. The numbers are below and a good bit better. Let me know what you think. :)

Rendering CPU 3596
Rendering xCPU 14709
OpenGL Standard 6405
 
chad, am curious if when running the test if the 4 main cores are only running or 8 cores. Could you rerun this and open activity monitor to watch the cpu? I wish someone would make a new benchmarking app. Will run xbench and post results to see comparison anyway.
 
Chad H said:
I gotta ask one quick question can anybody look at the picture of my temps and see if those are okay? The temps screenshot was taken while playing watching a youtube video, typing this, and listening to music in iTunes. BTW, the room temperature is 74 degree's Fahrenheit not Celsius. :)
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Watching YouTube at that Ambient - everything looks just fine.

When you post you should use Celsius though - as more people will know just by looking.

Congratz on the new box!
 
I ran the multi cpu test again and it looks like its using about 750% to 795% which would be all 8 cores. Also, xbench is going to vary to much I think. Mainly because I can inlcude every parameter except my hard drive and the score is around 310. Just run "quartz" and "open gl" and see. I will do the same.
 
2008 mac pro 2.8 w/18gb ram

Results 181.84
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.7 (9J61)
Physical RAM 18432 MB
Model MacPro3,1
Drive Type WDC WD3200AAJS-41VWA1
CPU Test 189.30
GCD Loop 328.15 17.30 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 160.91 3.82 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 130.93 4.32 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 236.37 41.16 Mops/sec
Thread Test 832.32
Computation 1129.5822.88 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 658.92 28.35 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 201.68
System 283.29
Allocate 326.43 1.20 Malloc/sec
Fill 235.48 11449.71 MB/sec
Copy 304.92 6297.93 MB/sec
Stream 156.57
Copy 157.37 3250.45 MB/sec
Scale 159.03 3285.46 MB/sec
Add 155.13 3304.61 MB/sec
Triad 154.83 3312.16 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 275.78
Line 218.96 14.58 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 291.60 87.06 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 237.44 19.35 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 231.99 5.85 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 620.43 38.81 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 214.29
Spinning Squares 214.29 271.84 frames/sec
Spinning Squares 214.29 271.84 frames/sec
User Interface Test 439.82
Elements 439.82 2.02 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 60.65
Sequential 81.24
Uncached Write 69.02 42.38 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 74.88 42.37 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 99.19 29.03 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 88.42 44.44 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 48.39
Uncached Write 18.45 1.95 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 104.73 33.53 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 94.44 0.67 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 120.27 22.32 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 
Bearcat, I ran every department just like you. Below are my results.
 

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I just ran it again and got a little higher. These tests bounce around way too much.
 

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