MacBook Pro 2.4Ghz Benchmark

fuzzydave · May 27, 2008

Guys,

I am finding my mbp a little slow... are these results normal?

Results 101.46
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.2 (9C7010)
Physical RAM 2048 MB
Model MacBookPro3,1
Drive Type FUJITSU MHW2160BHPL
CPU Test 150.60
GCD Loop 274.20 14.45 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 136.44 3.24 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 111.94 3.69 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 150.34 26.18 Mops/sec
Thread Test 177.04
Computation 187.82 3.80 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 167.42 7.20 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 161.29
System 167.47
Allocate 259.60 953.33 Kalloc/sec
Fill 137.61 6691.14 MB/sec
Copy 147.18 3039.85 MB/sec
Stream 155.55
Copy 146.35 3022.85 MB/sec
Scale 145.58 3007.55 MB/sec
Add 166.71 3551.36 MB/sec
Triad 166.27 3556.82 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 179.41
Line 178.25 11.87 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 177.27 52.92 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 165.29 13.47 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 170.90 4.31 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 212.04 13.26 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 161.99
Spinning Squares 161.99 205.49 frames/sec
User Interface Test 325.27
Elements 325.27 1.49 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 28.03
Sequential 35.47
Uncached Write 40.10 24.62 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 39.92 22.59 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 24.19 7.08 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 46.67 23.46 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 23.16
Uncached Write 8.36 0.89 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 49.06 15.71 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 55.37 0.39 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 68.07 12.63 MB/sec [256K blocks]

vendettabass · May 27, 2008

sounds like something might be up.. my 2.0ghz Core 2 Duo late 2006 got 118 on Xbench 1.3

amoda · May 27, 2008

How the heck did you get 118? I have a 2.6 and i only got a 110.72.
Edit: For some reason when pasting my scores it ended up stretching the page to twice its size. But yeah, i only got a 118 and I have a 2.6, 2Gb ram, 256mb vram.

Jurwin · May 27, 2008

Post some results using geekbench.

amoda · May 27, 2008

Yeah, I just ran geekbench 34bit and the score is more reasonable. But anyways, it sounds like your machine is running fine. As Jurwin suggested, use Geekbench. According to them a 2.4 Macbook Pro from Mid 2007 should have a score around 3094, yours might be a tad higher if it's a penryn.

Platform: Mac OS X x86 (32-bit)
Compiler: GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5.2 (Build 9C7010)
Model: MacBook Pro (Mid 2007)
Motherboard: Apple Inc. Mac-F4238BC8 PVT
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7800 @ 2.60GHz
Processor ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11
Logical Processors: 2
Physical Processors: 1
Processor Frequency: 2.60 GHz
L1 Instruction Cache: 32.0 KB
L1 Data Cache: 32.0 KB
L2 Cache: 4.00 MB
L3 Cache: 0.00 B
Bus Frequency: 800 MHz
Memory: 2.00 GB
Memory Type: 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
SIMD: 1
BIOS: Apple Inc. MBP31.88Z.0070.B07.0803051658
Processor Model: Intel Core 2 Duo T7800

Geekbench Score: 3333

Integer (Score: 2961)
Blowfish single-threaded scalar -- 2142, 1.0, 94.1 MB/sec
Blowfish multi-threaded scalar -- 4459, 1.9, 182.7 MB/sec
Text Compress single-threaded scalar -- 2041, 1.0, 6.53 MB/sec
Text Compress multi-threaded scalar -- 3472, 1.7, 11.4 MB/sec
Text Decompress single-threaded scalar -- 1823, 1.0, 7.49 MB/sec
Text Decompress multi-threaded scalar -- 3461, 1.8, 13.8 MB/sec
Image Compress single-threaded scalar -- 1849, 1.0, 15.3 Mpixels/sec
Image Compress multi-threaded scalar -- 3590, 2.0, 30.2 Mpixels/sec
Image Decompress single-threaded scalar -- 1527, 1.0, 25.6 Mpixels/sec
Image Decompress multi-threaded scalar -- 2995, 1.9, 48.9 Mpixels/sec
Crafty Chess single-threaded scalar -- 2184, 1.0, 1.10 Mnodes/sec
Crafty Chess multi-threaded scalar -- 3601, 1.6, 1.75 Mnodes/sec
Lua single-threaded scalar -- 2941, 1.0, 1.13 Mnodes/sec
Lua multi-threaded scalar -- 5374, 1.8, 2.07 Mnodes/sec

Floating Point (Score: 4638)
Mandelbrot single-threaded scalar -- 1932, 1.0, 1.29 Gflops
Mandelbrot multi-threaded scalar -- 3658, 1.9, 2.39 Gflops
Dot Product single-threaded scalar -- 2330, 1.0, 1.13 Gflops
Dot Product multi-threaded scalar -- 6080, 2.5, 2.77 Gflops
Dot Product single-threaded vector -- 1460, 1.6, 1.75 Gflops
Dot Product multi-threaded vector -- 4381, 4.0, 4.56 Gflops
LU Decomposition single-threaded scalar -- 758, 1.0, 674.8 Mflops
LU Decomposition multi-threaded scalar -- 1471, 1.9, 1.29 Gflops
Primality Test single-threaded scalar -- 3671, 1.0, 548.4 Mflops
Primality Test multi-threaded scalar -- 5176, 1.8, 960.7 Mflops
Sharpen Image single-threaded scalar -- 5204, 1.0, 12.1 Mpixels/sec
Sharpen Image multi-threaded scalar -- 9487, 1.8, 21.9 Mpixels/sec
Blur Image single-threaded scalar -- 6733, 1.0, 5.33 Mpixels/sec
Blur Image multi-threaded scalar -- 12597, 1.9, 9.90 Mpixels/sec

Memory (Score: 2412)
Read Sequential single-threaded scalar -- 3439, 1.0, 4.21 GB/sec
Write Sequential single-threaded scalar -- 2553, 1.0, 1.75 GB/sec
Stdlib Allocate single-threaded scalar -- 2117, 1.0, 7.90 Mallocs/sec
Stdlib Write single-threaded scalar -- 1870, 1.0, 3.87 GB/sec
Stdlib Copy single-threaded scalar -- 2081, 1.0, 2.15 GB/sec

Stream (Score: 1913)
Stream Copy single-threaded scalar -- 1790, 1.0, 2.45 GB/sec
Stream Copy single-threaded vector -- 2098, 1.1, 2.72 GB/sec
Stream Scale single-threaded scalar -- 2003, 1.0, 2.60 GB/sec
Stream Scale single-threaded vector -- 2074, 1.1, 2.80 GB/sec
Stream Add single-threaded scalar -- 1725, 1.0, 2.60 GB/sec
Stream Add single-threaded vector -- 2093, 1.1, 2.91 GB/sec
Stream Triad single-threaded scalar -- 1979, 1.0, 2.73 GB/sec
Stream Triad single-threaded vector -- 1544, 1.1, 2.89 GB/sec

Here's my xbench:
Results 110.59
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.2 (9C7010)
Physical RAM 2048 MB
Model MacBookPro3,1
Drive Type FUJITSU MHW2120BH
CPU Test 137.90
GCD Loop 307.17 16.19 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 146.63 3.48 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 78.34 2.58 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 162.15 28.24 Mops/sec
Thread Test 213.18
Computation 225.80 4.57 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 201.89 8.69 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 166.01
System 189.76
Allocate 286.00 1.05 Malloc/sec
Fill 156.75 7621.47 MB/sec
Copy 168.54 3481.18 MB/sec
Stream 147.54
Copy 141.35 2919.43 MB/sec
Scale 141.04 2913.91 MB/sec
Add 154.64 3294.23 MB/sec
Triad 154.31 3301.03 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 195.62
Line 192.93 12.84 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 221.08 66.00 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 191.21 15.59 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 185.60 4.68 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 191.00 11.95 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 173.03
Spinning Squares 173.03 219.50 frames/sec
User Interface Test 305.24
Elements 305.24 1.40 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 32.09
Sequential 40.93
Uncached Write 50.04 30.72 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 50.23 28.42 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 23.54 6.89 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 65.08 32.71 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 26.39
Uncached Write 9.54 1.01 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 59.45 19.03 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 57.00 0.40 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 80.81 14.99 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Mankin5344 · May 28, 2008

I got a 113 on my 2.4 ghz penryn. So yours sounds about right. There are also so many small factors that play a role in benchmarks .

Chrysaor · May 28, 2008

I got 134 with my 2.4Ghz Penryn Hackintosh.

Code:

Results	134.45	
	System Info		
		Xbench Version		1.3
		System Version		10.5.2 (9C7010)
		Physical RAM		4096 MB
		Model		MacBookPro4,1
		Drive Type		ST9200420ASG
	CPU Test	153.57	
		GCD Loop	281.85	14.86 Mops/sec
		Floating Point Basic	117.62	2.79 Gflop/sec
		vecLib FFT	110.47	3.64 Gflop/sec
		Floating Point Library	202.25	35.22 Mops/sec
	Thread Test	269.62	
		Computation	328.42	6.65 Mops/sec, 4 threads
		Lock Contention	228.68	9.84 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
	Memory Test	169.00	
		System	182.05	
			Allocate	250.71	920.70 Kalloc/sec
			Fill	151.44	7363.18 MB/sec
			Copy	169.86	3508.39 MB/sec
		Stream	157.70	
			Copy	147.72	3051.10 MB/sec
			Scale	149.97	3098.36 MB/sec
			Add	168.08	3580.48 MB/sec
			Triad	167.28	3578.63 MB/sec
	Quartz Graphics Test	179.38	
		Line	163.96	10.92 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
		Rectangle	206.00	61.50 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
		Circle	165.68	13.51 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
		Bezier	173.20	4.37 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
		Text	195.67	12.24 Kchars/sec
	OpenGL Graphics Test	149.28	
		Spinning Squares	149.28	189.36 frames/sec
	User Interface Test	331.17	
		Elements	331.17	1.52 Krefresh/sec
	Disk Test	48.47	
		Sequential	87.53	
			Uncached Write	85.46	52.47 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	81.71	46.23 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	91.62	26.81 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	92.23	46.36 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Random	33.51	
			Uncached Write	11.10	1.17 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	95.76	30.66 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	91.33	0.65 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	127.33	23.63 MB/sec [256K blocks]

alphaod · May 28, 2008

Already a thread on this, but here's mine nonetheless:

Kaupa · May 28, 2008

Hi,
I got 134 with my 2.4 Merom today. But I have the WD 320gb HDD inside. With the stock HDD i had 110 Xbenches...

MacBookProJoe · May 28, 2008

I wonder why mine came up 119?

How'd you get a txt file from xbench?

Results 119.14
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.2 (9C7010)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model MacBookPro4,1
Drive Type Hitachi HTS542525K9SA00
CPU Test 168.86
GCD Loop 292.39 15.41 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 141.52 3.36 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 118.53 3.91 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 209.89 36.55 Mops/sec
Thread Test 236.47
Computation 340.52 6.90 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 181.13 7.79 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 172.68
System 189.28
Allocate 298.76 1.10 Malloc/sec
Fill 152.70 7424.43 MB/sec
Copy 167.96 3469.13 MB/sec
Stream 158.77
Copy 150.02 3098.64 MB/sec
Scale 148.02 3058.12 MB/sec
Add 169.36 3607.68 MB/sec
Triad 170.41 3645.44 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 191.22
Line 187.03 12.45 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 225.35 67.28 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 177.52 14.47 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 183.16 4.62 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 189.74 11.87 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 163.92
Spinning Squares 163.92 207.94 frames/sec
User Interface Test 220.20
Elements 220.20 1.01 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 37.12
Sequential 65.00
Uncached Write 83.24 51.11 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 79.86 45.18 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 37.26 10.90 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 98.46 49.48 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 25.97
Uncached Write 8.66 0.92 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 71.12 22.77 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 68.01 0.48 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 103.15 19.14 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Kaupa · May 29, 2008

Hahaha, wow!
Now i got 142 with the 10.5.3. I guess the fast WD 3200BEVT makes a lot of score. A friend of mine has the 2.6 Penryn wi6h 7200 Hitachi and he only gets 135

MacBookProJoe · May 29, 2008

Kaupa said:
Hahaha, wow!
Now i got 142 with the 10.5.3. I guess the fast WD 3200BEVT makes a lot of score. A friend of mine has the 2.6 Penryn wi6h 7200 Hitachi and he only gets 135

What is BEVT?

desi22601 · May 29, 2008

Hi sorry but how do you guys test this? is there a specific site that you use?

Kaupa · May 29, 2008

MacBookProJoe said:
What is BEVT?

That is the model with 320gb capacity from Western Digital. I dont know what the bevt stands for...

@desi
Search for xbench os x on google, there you can find the benchmark tool...

bart rijksen · May 29, 2008

This is what i got, with my macbook pro. According to the test my disk is very slow. How can this be? Is this normal. I do notice i have freezes, but not awfully often. Is this ok?
Thanks a lot

Results 126.21
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.3 (9D34)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model MacBookPro4,1
Drive Type Hitachi HTS722020K9SA00
CPU Test 167.22
GCD Loop 291.70 15.38 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 137.16 3.26 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 118.86 3.92 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 208.86 36.37 Mops/sec
Thread Test 292.33
Computation 444.41 9.00 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 217.80 9.37 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 172.72
System 190.89
Allocate 318.09 1.17 Malloc/sec
Fill 152.22 7401.47 MB/sec
Copy 166.58 3440.59 MB/sec
Stream 157.71
Copy 148.74 3072.19 MB/sec
Scale 147.52 3047.63 MB/sec
Add 168.76 3594.99 MB/sec
Triad 168.50 3604.64 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 198.10
Line 185.39 12.34 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 236.21 70.52 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 190.66 15.54 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 196.35 4.95 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 189.60 11.86 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 163.75
Spinning Squares 163.75 207.72 frames/sec
User Interface Test 185.29
Elements 185.29 850.38 refresh/sec
Disk Test 42.16
Sequential 71.06
Uncached Write 97.64 59.95 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 96.93 54.84 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 37.45 10.96 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 110.81 55.69 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 29.97
Uncached Write 10.06 1.07 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 85.72 27.44 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 70.66 0.50 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 121.08 22.47 MB/sec [256K blocks]

PhysicsMan · May 29, 2008

Being someone soon to be a mac convert, is there a reason to spend 250$ on the 2.5 GHz to 2.6 GHz processor bump in the new 15" MBP?

akm3 · May 29, 2008

PhysicsMan said:
Being someone soon to be a mac convert, is there a reason to spend 250$ on the 2.5 GHz to 2.6 GHz processor bump in the new 15" MBP?

Not a good reason. The performance/value just isn't there. The only people who could possibly justify that upgrade are a) rich, b) actually use the machine for work, are paid for their time, and use something so CPU bottlenecked that there is an ROI for the miliseconds saved.

For an average person, it is a complete waste of money.

PhysicsMan · May 29, 2008

Thank you for the speedy reply.

But more specifically, I am a physicist that does alot of computationally intensive programming in Mathematica, programs that will often run for hours. In this scenario, would there be any noticeable difference in the two processors?

bigfatdummy · May 29, 2008

My Results.

Platform: Mac OS X x86 (32-bit)
Compiler: GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5.3 (Build 9D34)
Model: MacBook Pro (17-inch Core 2 Duo)
Motherboard: Apple Computer, Inc. Mac-F42189C8 PVT
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7600 @ 2.33GHz
Processor ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 6
Logical Processors: 2
Physical Processors: 1
Processor Frequency: 2.33 GHz
L1 Instruction Cache: 32.0 KB
L1 Data Cache: 32.0 KB
L2 Cache: 4.00 MB
L3 Cache: 0.00 B
Bus Frequency: 664 MHz
Memory: 3.00 GB
Memory Type: 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
SIMD: 1
BIOS: Apple Inc. MBP21.88Z.00A5.B08.0802291403
Processor Model: Intel Core 2 Duo T7600

Integer (Score: 2565)
Blowfish single-threaded scalar -- 1921, 1.0, 84.4 MB/sec
Blowfish multi-threaded scalar -- 4099, 2.0, 168.0 MB/sec
Text Compress single-threaded scalar -- 1820, 1.0, 5.82 MB/sec
Text Compress multi-threaded scalar -- 3358, 1.9, 11.0 MB/sec
Text Decompress single-threaded scalar -- 1626, 1.0, 6.68 MB/sec
Text Decompress multi-threaded scalar -- 3170, 1.9, 12.6 MB/sec
Image Compress single-threaded scalar -- 1658, 1.0, 13.7 Mpixels/sec
Image Compress multi-threaded scalar -- 3197, 2.0, 26.9 Mpixels/sec
Image Decompress single-threaded scalar -- 1346, 1.0, 22.6 Mpixels/sec
Image Decompress multi-threaded scalar -- 2712, 2.0, 44.3 Mpixels/sec
Crafty Chess single-threaded scalar -- 1931, 1.0, 976.2 Knodes/sec
Crafty Chess multi-threaded scalar -- 2030, 1.0, 985.2 Knodes/sec
Lua single-threaded scalar -- 2420, 1.0, 931.8 Knodes/sec
Lua multi-threaded scalar -- 4633, 1.9, 1.78 Mnodes/sec

Floating Point (Score: 4214)
Mandelbrot single-threaded scalar -- 1735, 1.0, 1.15 Gflops
Mandelbrot multi-threaded scalar -- 3493, 2.0, 2.29 Gflops
Dot Product single-threaded scalar -- 2242, 1.0, 1.08 Gflops
Dot Product multi-threaded scalar -- 5074, 2.1, 2.31 Gflops
Dot Product single-threaded vector -- 1711, 1.9, 2.05 Gflops
Dot Product multi-threaded vector -- 3226, 3.1, 3.36 Gflops
LU Decomposition single-threaded scalar -- 679, 1.0, 604.8 Mflops
LU Decomposition multi-threaded scalar -- 1378, 2.0, 1.21 Gflops
Primality Test single-threaded scalar -- 3273, 1.0, 488.9 Mflops
Primality Test multi-threaded scalar -- 4875, 1.9, 904.7 Mflops
Sharpen Image single-threaded scalar -- 4650, 1.0, 10.8 Mpixels/sec
Sharpen Image multi-threaded scalar -- 9095, 1.9, 21.0 Mpixels/sec
Blur Image single-threaded scalar -- 6021, 1.0, 4.76 Mpixels/sec
Blur Image multi-threaded scalar -- 11554, 1.9, 9.09 Mpixels/sec

Memory (Score: 1998)
Read Sequential single-threaded scalar -- 3061, 1.0, 3.75 GB/sec
Write Sequential single-threaded scalar -- 1880, 1.0, 1.29 GB/sec
Stdlib Allocate single-threaded scalar -- 1820, 1.0, 6.79 Mallocs/sec
Stdlib Write single-threaded scalar -- 1534, 1.0, 3.18 GB/sec
Stdlib Copy single-threaded scalar -- 1698, 1.0, 1.75 GB/sec

Stream (Score: 1479)
Stream Copy single-threaded scalar -- 1445, 1.0, 1.98 GB/sec
Stream Copy single-threaded vector -- 1546, 1.0, 2.01 GB/sec
Stream Scale single-threaded scalar -- 1473, 1.0, 1.91 GB/sec
Stream Scale single-threaded vector -- 1524, 1.1, 2.06 GB/sec
Stream Add single-threaded scalar -- 1408, 1.0, 2.13 GB/sec
Stream Add single-threaded vector -- 1609, 1.1, 2.24 GB/sec
Stream Triad single-threaded scalar -- 1655, 1.0, 2.29 GB/sec
Stream Triad single-threaded vector -- 1177, 1.0, 2.20 GB/sec

Results 134.49
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.3 (9D34)
Physical RAM 3072 MB
Model MacBookPro2,1
Drive Type WDC WD3200BEVT-22ZCT0
CPU Test 144.37
GCD Loop 272.45 14.36 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 130.97 3.11 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 105.67 3.49 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 144.14 25.10 Mops/sec
Thread Test 197.09
Computation 195.01 3.95 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 199.21 8.57 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 134.08
System 160.86
Allocate 255.25 937.36 Kalloc/sec
Fill 132.79 6456.69 MB/sec
Copy 138.87 2868.27 MB/sec
Stream 114.95
Copy 106.17 2192.85 MB/sec
Scale 107.73 2225.61 MB/sec
Add 123.92 2639.83 MB/sec
Triad 124.58 2665.17 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 174.47
Line 163.20 10.87 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 211.81 63.24 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 163.71 13.34 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 170.89 4.31 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 170.93 10.69 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 227.40
Spinning Squares 227.40 288.47 frames/sec
User Interface Test 212.83
Elements 212.83 976.80 refresh/sec
Disk Test 56.30
Sequential 73.08
Uncached Write 85.40 52.43 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 91.68 51.87 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 45.00 13.17 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 101.05 50.79 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 45.78
Uncached Write 17.96 1.90 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 116.04 37.15 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 69.74 0.49 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 114.56 21.26 MB/sec [256K blocks]

good results on the new WD 320 GB HD. Pretty happy about that.

amoda · May 30, 2008

PhysicsMan said:
Thank you for the speedy reply.

But more specifically, I am a physicist that does alot of computationally intensive programming in Mathematica, programs that will often run for hours. In this scenario, would there be any noticeable difference in the two processors?

Mathematica, MatLab and the such are cpu intensive so the increase in speed would help. But expect the difference to be by minutes. Obviously the larger the file the bigger the gain but if it takes a 2.5 MBP 2hours to run the test, it would take the 2.6 an hour and 53 mins. This is obviously a huge guess but it illustrates that the difference is not groundbreaking.

If you don't need portability it would be much better for you to purchase a Mac Pro. You'd need to purchase a screen but since you can buy any cheap dell screen since I'm assuming you wouldn't need to be doing photography or anything like that.

2.5 15" MBP: $2499 + AppleCare (A must for portables, really really recommended) $349 = $2848+ taxes

2.8 Quad Mac Pro w wireless add on: $2349 + $250 Dispaly= $2549 + taxes

2.8 Quad v.s. 2.5 dual is a huge performance boost.

Mariux.mac · May 30, 2008

Mine 129.24

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