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Newest Mac OS X 10.4.8 with Faster OpenGL?

Saturday September 9, 2006 10:18 pm PDT by Arnold Kim
Apple just released a Mac OS X 10.4.8 developer seed marked as build 8L2112 (Intel) and 8L112 (PPC). This latest build was released to developers with little fan fare.

An unconfirmed post claimed the latest 10.4.8 build did incorporate enhanced OpenGL performance which led to the following Cinebench 9.5 benchmark on a MacBook Pro which does not appear to demonstrate significant improvements:
































Computer

1 CPU

x=2 CPU

OpenGL SW

OpenGL HW

OpenGL Speedup

MacBook Pro 2.16, Mac OS X 10.4.8 (Dev Seed)

334

628

1529

3062

7.85

MacBook Pro 2.16, Mac OS X 10.4.7, 2GB

328

559

1503

2947

7.74

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arn
71 months ago
can someone with a Macbook Pro 2.16, 2GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.7 run cinebench and post their results?

arn
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Eidorian
71 months ago
I'm waiting for 10.4.8 Apple....
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EricNau
71 months ago
I'm surprised Apple didn't just wait for Leopard.

...But I'm glad they didn't! :D
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nitynate
71 months ago
C'mon apple!


I need more rosetta support. :D


As it is, it sucks. :o


Woot for Multithreaded OpenGL...
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arn
71 months ago

What does this mean for PPC users such as myself?


It means if you have a multi-core or multi-processor Mac, then you will see similar speed benefits.

Remember that multi-core/multi-processor PowerPC macs where limited to PowerMacs, however.

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mkjellman
71 months ago
while these are impressive speed increases, i am not sure how impressive it would be in real life. does any part of the native os x gui or core elements use OpenGL?

the real question is would this increase the "snappyness"' :D of the next release?
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Eidorian
71 months ago

while these are impressive speed increases, i am not sure how impressive it would be in real life. does any part of the native os x gui or core elements use OpenGL?

the real question is would this increase the "snappyness"' :D of the next release?

Let me try not to die from the laughter.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/opengl/

Oh and yes you're going to see a performance increase on integrated graphics systems with multiple-cores.
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skoker
71 months ago

It means if you have a multi-core or multi-processor Mac, then you will see similar speed benefits.

Remember that multi-core/multi-processor PowerPC macs where limited to PowerMacs, however.

arn


Well, guess my iBook G4 and in-the-mail Clamshell, PPC mini, and 12" PB G4 are left out of this party.
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xPismo
71 months ago
Am I reading that correctly to say its a 4x to 7x improvement?

Thats staggering.
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arn
71 months ago

Am I reading that correctly to say its a 4x to 7x improvement?

Thats staggering.


No, it's a 2x improvement if anything. I still need someone to run it on a latest 10.4.7 Mac Book Pro with 2.16GHz CPU and 2GB of ram if possible to verify results.

edit: MacBook Pro

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