Hi,
Our house has 2 13" MBP's in it. My wife's 2009 2.1Ghz MBP and my mid-2010 2.4Ghz MBP. As a bit of background, I previously owned a 2007 24inch 2.4Ghz C2D iMac, however I have needed to "upgrade" to a new MBP as I need the portability.
I would have assumed that the graphics performance in my mid-2010 MBP to better my 3 year old iMac and my wife's MBP, however, I'm beginning to think this is sadly not the case and am wondering what's wrong with my supposedly "fastest 13inch MBP ever" computer.
I decided to compare my wife's MBP with mine uxing Xbench and after a few tests, and despite the 'better' processor in mine, her results seem to come out better every time!!! Why would this be? And why am I finding Safari to be sluggish when scrolling on my new machine? Is there anything that could be wrong with my new MBP, or am I just being a bit unrealistic in my expectations?
As per the info below you can see that I have a faster processor, double the memory and SUPPOSEDLY a better video card!
**Wife's MBP**
Results 183.66
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.4 (10F569)
Physical RAM 2048 MB
Model MacBookPro5,5
Drive Type ST9160314ASG
CPU Test 161.33
GCD Loop 264.81 13.96 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 128.32 3.05 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 107.77 3.56 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 253.42 44.13 Mops/sec
Thread Test 224.06
Computation 305.44 6.19 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 176.92 7.61 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 182.69
System 215.84
Allocate 294.72 1.08 Malloc/sec
Fill 175.03 8510.35 MB/sec
Copy 208.63 4309.24 MB/sec
Stream 158.37
Copy 152.61 3152.06 MB/sec
Scale 149.61 3090.94 MB/sec
Add 166.82 3553.68 MB/sec
Triad 165.96 3550.30 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 176.86
Line 154.79 10.31 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 199.68 59.61 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 170.39 13.89 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 182.32 4.60 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 183.55 11.48 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 140.23
Spinning Squares 140.23 177.88 frames/sec
User Interface Test 266.83
Elements 266.83 1.22 Krefresh/sec
**My MBP**
Results 183.57
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.4 (10F569)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model MacBookPro7,1
CPU Test 170.84
GCD Loop 279.86 14.75 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 137.42 3.27 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 113.06 3.73 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 268.94 46.83 Mops/sec
Thread Test 231.76
Computation 308.86 6.26 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 185.46 7.98 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 194.62
System 229.90
Allocate 388.23 1.43 Malloc/sec
Fill 178.19 8663.79 MB/sec
Copy 205.70 4248.65 MB/sec
Stream 168.73
Copy 160.58 3316.72 MB/sec
Scale 158.25 3269.30 MB/sec
Add 179.35 3820.46 MB/sec
Triad 179.10 3831.44 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 147.27
Line 129.19 8.60 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 157.08 46.90 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 136.67 11.14 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 159.53 4.02 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 159.73 9.99 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 146.18
Spinning Squares 146.18 185.44 frames/sec
User Interface Test 266.86
Elements 266.86 1.22 Krefresh/sec
Our house has 2 13" MBP's in it. My wife's 2009 2.1Ghz MBP and my mid-2010 2.4Ghz MBP. As a bit of background, I previously owned a 2007 24inch 2.4Ghz C2D iMac, however I have needed to "upgrade" to a new MBP as I need the portability.
I would have assumed that the graphics performance in my mid-2010 MBP to better my 3 year old iMac and my wife's MBP, however, I'm beginning to think this is sadly not the case and am wondering what's wrong with my supposedly "fastest 13inch MBP ever" computer.
I decided to compare my wife's MBP with mine uxing Xbench and after a few tests, and despite the 'better' processor in mine, her results seem to come out better every time!!! Why would this be? And why am I finding Safari to be sluggish when scrolling on my new machine? Is there anything that could be wrong with my new MBP, or am I just being a bit unrealistic in my expectations?
As per the info below you can see that I have a faster processor, double the memory and SUPPOSEDLY a better video card!
**Wife's MBP**
Results 183.66
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.4 (10F569)
Physical RAM 2048 MB
Model MacBookPro5,5
Drive Type ST9160314ASG
CPU Test 161.33
GCD Loop 264.81 13.96 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 128.32 3.05 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 107.77 3.56 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 253.42 44.13 Mops/sec
Thread Test 224.06
Computation 305.44 6.19 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 176.92 7.61 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 182.69
System 215.84
Allocate 294.72 1.08 Malloc/sec
Fill 175.03 8510.35 MB/sec
Copy 208.63 4309.24 MB/sec
Stream 158.37
Copy 152.61 3152.06 MB/sec
Scale 149.61 3090.94 MB/sec
Add 166.82 3553.68 MB/sec
Triad 165.96 3550.30 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 176.86
Line 154.79 10.31 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 199.68 59.61 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 170.39 13.89 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 182.32 4.60 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 183.55 11.48 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 140.23
Spinning Squares 140.23 177.88 frames/sec
User Interface Test 266.83
Elements 266.83 1.22 Krefresh/sec
**My MBP**
Results 183.57
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.4 (10F569)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model MacBookPro7,1
CPU Test 170.84
GCD Loop 279.86 14.75 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 137.42 3.27 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 113.06 3.73 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 268.94 46.83 Mops/sec
Thread Test 231.76
Computation 308.86 6.26 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 185.46 7.98 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 194.62
System 229.90
Allocate 388.23 1.43 Malloc/sec
Fill 178.19 8663.79 MB/sec
Copy 205.70 4248.65 MB/sec
Stream 168.73
Copy 160.58 3316.72 MB/sec
Scale 158.25 3269.30 MB/sec
Add 179.35 3820.46 MB/sec
Triad 179.10 3831.44 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 147.27
Line 129.19 8.60 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 157.08 46.90 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 136.67 11.14 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 159.53 4.02 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 159.73 9.99 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 146.18
Spinning Squares 146.18 185.44 frames/sec
User Interface Test 266.86
Elements 266.86 1.22 Krefresh/sec