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Power Mac G5 Quad Benchmarks

powermac G4 867

by comparison my 867 Powermac Quicksilver scored a whopping 29.53 on the same xbench test


I'm no genius but I'm thinking this is pretty darn fast.

my stats
Results 29.53
System Info
Xbench Version 1.2
System Version 10.4.3 (8F46)
Physical RAM 1024 MB
Model PowerMac3,5
Processor PowerPC G4 @ 867 MHz
Version 7450 (V'ger) v2.1
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 256K @ 867 MHz
L3 Cache 2048K @ 217 MHz
Bus Frequency 134 MHz
Video Card GeForce2 MX
Drive Type WDC WD800JB-00CRA1
CPU Test 28.56
GCD Loop 65.91 3.47 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 18.38 436.77 Mflop/sec
vecLib FFT 32.47 1.07 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 25.19 4.39 Mops/sec
Thread Test 34.78
Computation 32.78 664.13 Kops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 37.05 1.59 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 18.67
System 30.75
Allocate 75.83 278.47 Kalloc/sec
Fill 29.38 1428.67 MB/sec
Copy 19.87 410.40 MB/sec
Stream 13.40
Copy 13.03 269.04 MB/sec [altivec]
Scale 13.56 280.14 MB/sec [altivec]
Add 13.19 281.00 MB/sec [altivec]
Triad 13.86 296.46 MB/sec [altivec]
Quartz Graphics Test 39.83
Line 35.79 2.38 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 36.21 10.81 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 36.31 2.96 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 45.24 1.14 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 49.21 3.08 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 49.51
Spinning Squares 49.51 62.81 frames/sec
User Interface Test 18.82
Elements 18.82 86.37 refresh/sec
Disk Test 46.97
Sequential 58.13
Uncached Write 36.18 22.21 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 78.95 44.67 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 62.01 18.15 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 80.80 40.61 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 39.41
Uncached Write 14.54 1.54 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 76.40 24.46 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 91.30 0.65 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 114.91 21.32 MB/sec [256K blocks]

P.S. if you wanna know how fast it is, just run xbench on your own computer instead of bi***ing about how useless this information is.
Do I have to come up with all the bright ideas?
 
risc said:
XBench probably has no idea how to correctly benchmark a quad, that is why this thread is pretty pointless. What I'd like to see from the OP is pictures of the machine, and get his comments on how it "feels".
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That's not the problem. It also reported 1ghz on my machine.
 
Don't think so...

b.k.jackson said:
For comparison, my PowerBook (15" Alu) 1.25 G4 got a 102.80

Brian
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That makes your PowerBook faster than a dual 2.0 G5 PM, so you won't want a new laptop for about ten years...
:cool:
 
Wow, my 1.8ghz G5 iMac went down to a 48, I need to get a new computer, its obsolete
 
agnasd said:
Wow, my 1.8ghz G5 iMac went down to a 48, I need to get a new computer, its obsolete
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I hear that I was getting 210-215 on this box then I installed a new video card and ran the latest version and my score dropped to 90-95.
 
b.k.jackson said:
For comparison, my PowerBook (15" Alu) 1.25 G4 got a 102.80

Brian
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Not possible...here is what my 15' 1.25GHz PB scored...

Results 43.91
System Info
Xbench Version 1.2
System Version 10.4.3 (8F46)
Physical RAM 1024 MB
Model PowerBook5,2
Processor PowerPC G4 @ 1.25 GHz
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 512K @ 1.25 GHz
Bus Frequency 167 MHz
Video Card ATY,RV350M10
Drive Type Hitachi HTS548080M9AT00
CPU Test 51.89
GCD Loop 108.18 5.70 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 34.77 826.12 Mflop/sec
vecLib FFT 72.96 2.41 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 39.41 6.86 Mops/sec
Thread Test 54.73
Computation 53.50 1.08 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 56.02 2.41 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 32.18
System 35.62
Allocate 118.06 433.57 Kalloc/sec
Fill 32.30 1570.46 MB/sec
Copy 22.33 461.20 MB/sec
Stream 29.34
Copy 28.76 594.01 MB/sec [altivec]
Scale 27.65 571.25 MB/sec [altivec]
Add 30.60 651.78 MB/sec [altivec]
Triad 30.56 653.73 MB/sec [altivec]
Quartz Graphics Test 58.45
Line 51.92 3.46 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 59.54 17.78 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 60.42 4.93 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 67.90 1.71 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 54.89 3.43 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 68.24
Spinning Squares 68.24 86.56 frames/sec
User Interface Test 36.62
Elements 36.62 168.05 refresh/sec
Disk Test 31.54
Sequential 54.12
Uncached Write 51.69 31.74 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 47.45 26.85 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 72.42 21.19 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 50.81 25.54 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 22.25
Uncached Write 7.92 0.84 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 41.01 13.13 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 63.60 0.45 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 74.39 13.80 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 
xbench is notoriously inconsistant and meaningless... but it's nice that they're shipping.

and as noted for people who see their scores *sharply* dropping, it's because the baseline (100) used to be a dual G4 @ 800 mhz, and they reset it so now 100 = dual G5 @ 2.0 Ghz.
 
My PowerBook Needs Some Help!!!

Results 36.97
System Info
Xbench Version 1.2
System Version 10.4.3 (8F46)
Physical RAM 1024 MB
Model PowerBook5,2
Processor PowerPC G4 @ 1.00 GHz
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 512K @ 1.00 GHz
Bus Frequency 167 MHz
Video Card ATY,RV350M10
Drive Type FUJITSU MHT2060AT
CPU Test 38.77
GCD Loop 83.82 4.42 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 23.56 559.88 Mflop/sec
vecLib FFT 57.36 1.89 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 31.88 5.55 Mops/sec
Thread Test 42.72
Computation 41.61 842.97 Kops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 43.89 1.89 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 26.93
System 29.75
Allocate 89.70 329.42 Kalloc/sec
Fill 25.98 1263.13 MB/sec
Copy 19.54 403.53 MB/sec
Stream 24.60
Copy 24.27 501.30 MB/sec [altivec]
Scale 23.91 493.96 MB/sec [altivec]
Add 24.99 532.39 MB/sec [altivec]
Triad 25.29 540.97 MB/sec [altivec]
Quartz Graphics Test 50.82
Line 45.21 3.01 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 49.27 14.71 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 49.40 4.03 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 57.53 1.45 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 54.52 3.41 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 57.26
Spinning Squares 57.26 72.64 frames/sec
User Interface Test 30.43
Elements 30.43 139.65 refresh/sec
Disk Test 30.31
Sequential 42.28
Uncached Write 37.04 22.74 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 36.33 20.56 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 65.70 19.23 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 40.23 20.22 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 23.62
Uncached Write 9.48 1.00 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 35.17 11.26 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 51.93 0.37 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 61.84 11.48 MB/sec [256K blocks]



To be honest, though, I DON'T CARE as I've just powered up my nice new 23" Cinema HD and am transfixed to the quality . And running dual screen will have to do me until I get a nice new Dual-Core/Dual-Proc MacIntel. (Hurry up Apple - I lose interest in things quite quickly no matter how nice stuff is!!!) :rolleyes:
 
151 sounds very good.. against my PB 1.5

PB 1.5 with 2 gig, 128 meg video ram, 5,400 rpm HD Tiger 10.4.3


Results 46.33
System Info
Xbench Version 1.2
System Version 10.4.3 (8F46)
Physical RAM 2048 MB
Model PowerBook5,4
Processor PowerPC G4 @ 1.50 GHz
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 512K @ 1.50 GHz
Bus Frequency 167 MHz
Video Card ATY,RV360M11
Drive Type TOSHIBA MK8026GAX
CPU Test 62.26
GCD Loop 125.00 6.59 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 41.79 993.03 Mflop/sec
vecLib FFT 88.45 2.92 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 47.59 8.29 Mops/sec
Thread Test 67.01
Computation 64.39 1.30 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 69.86 3.01 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 28.70
System 31.89
Allocate 157.34 577.79 Kalloc/sec
Fill 29.40 1429.28 MB/sec
Copy 18.62 384.65 MB/sec
Stream 26.08
Copy 24.90 514.34 MB/sec [altivec]
Scale 24.78 512.02 MB/sec [altivec]
Add 27.16 578.65 MB/sec [altivec]
Triad 27.75 593.57 MB/sec [altivec]
Quartz Graphics Test 65.32
Line 57.81 3.85 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 68.67 20.50 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 68.79 5.61 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 78.79 1.99 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 57.28 3.58 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 81.63
Spinning Squares 81.63 103.55 frames/sec
User Interface Test 37.50
Elements 37.50 172.10 refresh/sec
Disk Test 32.21
Sequential 67.63
Uncached Write 59.51 36.54 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 58.89 33.32 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 107.90 31.58 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 62.15 31.24 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 21.14
Uncached Write 7.21 0.76 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 44.43 14.22 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 61.31 0.43 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 85.16 15.80 MB/sec [256K blocks]
:eek:
 
slipper said:
151...thats it?
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XBench was rescaled, so 100 now equals a Dual 2 Ghz G5. 151 is a pretty good score then, esp considering that the QUad-G5 is being "weighed down" by a lot of XBench tasks that are single threaded or only measure memory, video card, or hard disk performance.

That being said, I really wish ppl with access to new machines (Quad G5, Macintel, etc) would run something more informative than XBench. XBench is almost worse than running nothing at all. At the very least, s/he could run Cinebench on the quad-G5. That's readily available at http://www.cinebench.com/ and at least it's testing a real application. It's even easier to run than XBench. It's basically just stressing FP performance, but it's still better than nothing at all (or XBench).
 
more tests...

I just ran more tests on my 867 PowerMac G4,
results (for those of you yelling inconsistent results!)
1st pass - 29.53
2nd pass - 30.21
3rd pass - 30.33

seems fairly consistent to me...considering you cant be sure of what processes, network lag, etc, is occuring while you run these tests...

seems pretty darn quick - especially since this 867 is still a sweet machine for work (graphic design), of course, I always want something faster!
 
XBench, dual G4

Dual G4-1.25 (post G5 machine)
Total 47.32 - but the hard drive was the real killer. Disk test, 23.28 - uncahced write, 6.7!

Graphics 62, OpenGL 78, User Interface 56, memory 35, Thread 90, CPU 53
 
A bit of context here...

I'm surprised nobody's pointed out the bench marks from the other Dual Core G5s out there now. Check out Mac360's results here. Specifically, I'm amazed (although maybe not too surprised) at the thread test results-
  • Dualcore 2.0: 96.91
  • Dualcore 2.3: 113.74
  • Dual Dualcore 2.5: 246.38!
Oh, I can't wait for those MP aware Photoshop benchmarks. *drool*
 
I would be very interested to see a Cinebench score of the quad

http://www.cinebench.com/

CINEBENCH is the free benchmarking tool for Windows and Mac OS based on the powerful 3D software CINEMA 4D. The tool is set to deliver accurate benchmarks by testing not only a computer's raw processing speed but also all other areas that affect system performance such as OpenGL, multithreading, multiprocessors and Intel's new HT Technology.

CINEBENCH includes render tasks that test the performance of up to 16 multiprocessors on the same computer as well as software-only shading tests and OpenGL shading tests on huge numbers of animated polygons that will push any computer to its limits.

On this site is a great comparison of all types of PC's and Macs

http://www.3dfluff.com/mash/cbtop.php
 
Brian Hickman said:
CPU Test 51.89
GCD Loop 108.18 5.70 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 34.77 826.12 Mflop/sec
vecLib FFT 72.96 2.41 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 39.41 6.86 Mops/sec
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I guess this means that Xbench is really onpy testing 1 CPU... Here ist the result for my customized QS with DP1.3GHz G4 Proc Upgrade card from sonnet:

System Info
Xbench Version 1.2
System Version 10.4.3 (8F46)
Physical RAM 1536 MB
Model PowerMac3,5
Processor PowerPC G4x2 @ 1.30 GHz
Version 7455 (Apollo) v3.3
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 256K @ 600 MHz
L3 Cache 2048K @ 120 MHz
Bus Frequency 134 MHz
Video Card ATY,RV250
Drive Type Maxtor 6Y120L0
CPU Test 53.69
GCD Loop 117.58 6.20 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 35.37 840.34 Mflop/sec
vecLib FFT 75.74 2.50 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 40.78 7.10 Mops/sec
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I think the most interesting benchmark is:

Computation 252.23 5.11 Mops/sec, 4 threads
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If dual 2.0 is 100, you would expect dual 2.5 to be 125, hence quad 2.5 to be 250 ...
 
Bartleby84 said:
I'm surprised nobody's pointed out the bench marks from the other Dual Core G5s out there now. Check out Mac360's results here. Specifically, I'm amazed (although maybe not too surprised) at the thread test results-
  • Dualcore 2.0: 96.91
  • Dualcore 2.3: 113.74
  • Dual Dualcore 2.5: 246.38!
Oh, I can't wait for those MP aware Photoshop benchmarks. *drool*
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Nice to see my 2.7 isn't that far behind. :rolleyes: :p :D :eek:
 
Xbench is obselete

Xbench should just crawl in some hole and die.

I think a cross platform benchmakr should be used such as Cinebench , or a Photoshop Filter/Render test.

for the Record My X2 3800 @ 2ghz scores 532 in Cinebench
@ 2.5ghz scores 659 in Cinebench.

I'd like to see some Post!!!!
 
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