Power Mac G5 Quad Benchmarks
One of our Wales UK-based members has reported receiving his Power Mac G5 Quad earlier in the week, and has run a preliminary set of Xbench 1.2 benchmarks on it.
While full details are in the forum thread, the overall Xbench score for the machine with 3 GB RAM running Mac OS X 10.4.2 weighs in at 151.86.
For comparison, the Dual 2.7GHz PowerMac has an Xbench score of 109.87... but due to version differences and other confounding variables, it is hard to draw many conclusions from these Xbench scores.
Cinebench 2003 scores were also posted: Quad 2.5GHz Power Mac compared to the old Dual 2.7GHz Power Mac
While full details are in the forum thread, the overall Xbench score for the machine with 3 GB RAM running Mac OS X 10.4.2 weighs in at 151.86.
For comparison, the Dual 2.7GHz PowerMac has an Xbench score of 109.87... but due to version differences and other confounding variables, it is hard to draw many conclusions from these Xbench scores.
Cinebench 2003 scores were also posted: Quad 2.5GHz Power Mac compared to the old Dual 2.7GHz Power Mac
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82 months ago
Xbench Results:
Results 151.86
System Info
Xbench Version 1.2
System Version 10.4.2 (8E90)
Physical RAM 3072 MB
Model PowerMac11,2
Processor PowerPC G5x4 @ 2.50 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 1024K @ 2.50 GHz
Bus Frequency 1 GHz
Drive Type WDC WD2500JS-41MVB1
CPU Test 125.82
GCD Loop 125.52 6.62 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 125.96 2.99 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 129.52 4.27 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 122.46 21.32 Mops/sec
Thread Test 246.38
Computation 252.23 5.11 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 240.79 10.36 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 129.76
System 123.99
Allocate 116.39 427.43 Kalloc/sec
Fill 172.55 8389.84 MB/sec
Copy 101.94 2105.60 MB/sec
Stream 136.10
Copy 134.55 2779.01 MB/sec [G5]
Scale 134.42 2777.05 MB/sec [G5]
Add 137.73 2933.98 MB/sec [G5]
Triad 137.79 2947.68 MB/sec [G5]
Quartz Graphics Test 150.30
Line 124.14 8.27 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 141.05 42.11 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 140.17 11.43 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 133.71 3.37 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 284.92 17.82 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 144.50
Spinning Squares 144.50 183.30 frames/sec
User Interface Test 229.01
Elements 229.01 1.05 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 71.27
Sequential 101.86
Uncached Write 116.11 71.29 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 106.60 60.32 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 76.82 22.48 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 121.06 60.84 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 54.81
Uncached Write 20.79 2.20 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 135.37 43.34 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 97.78 0.69 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 137.66 25.54 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Results 151.86
System Info
Xbench Version 1.2
System Version 10.4.2 (8E90)
Physical RAM 3072 MB
Model PowerMac11,2
Processor PowerPC G5x4 @ 2.50 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 1024K @ 2.50 GHz
Bus Frequency 1 GHz
Drive Type WDC WD2500JS-41MVB1
CPU Test 125.82
GCD Loop 125.52 6.62 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 125.96 2.99 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 129.52 4.27 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 122.46 21.32 Mops/sec
Thread Test 246.38
Computation 252.23 5.11 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 240.79 10.36 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 129.76
System 123.99
Allocate 116.39 427.43 Kalloc/sec
Fill 172.55 8389.84 MB/sec
Copy 101.94 2105.60 MB/sec
Stream 136.10
Copy 134.55 2779.01 MB/sec [G5]
Scale 134.42 2777.05 MB/sec [G5]
Add 137.73 2933.98 MB/sec [G5]
Triad 137.79 2947.68 MB/sec [G5]
Quartz Graphics Test 150.30
Line 124.14 8.27 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 141.05 42.11 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 140.17 11.43 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 133.71 3.37 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 284.92 17.82 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 144.50
Spinning Squares 144.50 183.30 frames/sec
User Interface Test 229.01
Elements 229.01 1.05 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 71.27
Sequential 101.86
Uncached Write 116.11 71.29 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 106.60 60.32 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 76.82 22.48 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 121.06 60.84 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 54.81
Uncached Write 20.79 2.20 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 135.37 43.34 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 97.78 0.69 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 137.66 25.54 MB/sec [256K blocks]
82 months ago
Not sure how fast 151.86 on Xbench is. Any real world tests using everyday apps such as Shake?
Sounds great if the quads can run 70-80% faster than the dual-cores.
Sounds great if the quads can run 70-80% faster than the dual-cores.
82 months ago
Need more comparison data.
Not sure how fast 151.86 on Xbench is. Any real world tests using everyday apps such as Shake?
Yeah I would like to see it next to a duel 2.7
82 months ago
Need more comparison data.
Not sure how fast 151.86 on Xbench is. Any real world tests using everyday apps such as Shake?
I concur.
I was just thinking "oooo pretty numbers" then realized I have no idea what they mean. Any hardware savvy folks care to explain?
82 months ago
Yeah I would like to see it next to a duel 2.7
Simply put ... it's faster!! :DActual comparisons in real world activities will come out as more people receive their boxes.
82 months ago
i was expecting more to be truefull?
but real world tests would be cool
itunes lossless speeds like on ZDnet UK lol
he wants to do the photoshop test !!!
but real world tests would be cool
itunes lossless speeds like on ZDnet UK lol
he wants to do the photoshop test !!!
82 months ago
151...thats it?
That's what I thought too, but I just tested my Dual 2.3 and I got 115.
82 months ago
For me this numbers mean nothing... I can't understand if it's is astonishing or just good, because I don't know any reference to check this out... Oh man... :o
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