8-Core Mac Pro Benchmarks
Barefeats has published performance benchmarks for Apple's latest 8-Core Mac Pro.
The initial report compares the 8-Core to the Quad-Core Mac Pro in Cinebench, GeekBench, Photoshop CS3, Aperture 1.5 and Quicktime 7.1.5 Exports.
A second report compares gaming frame rates between the two machines. They tested Doom 3, Quake 4, Halo, UT2004, World of Warcraft and Prey.
The 8-Core Mac Pro came out up to 40-55% faster on some tasks, such as Cinebench 9.5, GeekBench, and Quicktime Export speeds, but provided little advantage in the limited Photoshop CS3 and Aperture testing. The 8-Core also proved to be no faster across the board in the Gaming tests.
Barefeats speculates that the 8-Core Mac Pro maybe bottlenecked by the memory bus and also considers the possibility that Mac OS X Tiger may not be well optimized for the 8-Core Mac Pros.
Obviously some applications will be better suited to take advantage of multi-core Macs, so your mileage may vary, and decisions on 8-Core performance should be made based on the applications you use.
The initial report compares the 8-Core to the Quad-Core Mac Pro in Cinebench, GeekBench, Photoshop CS3, Aperture 1.5 and Quicktime 7.1.5 Exports.
A second report compares gaming frame rates between the two machines. They tested Doom 3, Quake 4, Halo, UT2004, World of Warcraft and Prey.
The 8-Core Mac Pro came out up to 40-55% faster on some tasks, such as Cinebench 9.5, GeekBench, and Quicktime Export speeds, but provided little advantage in the limited Photoshop CS3 and Aperture testing. The 8-Core also proved to be no faster across the board in the Gaming tests.
Barefeats speculates that the 8-Core Mac Pro maybe bottlenecked by the memory bus and also considers the possibility that Mac OS X Tiger may not be well optimized for the 8-Core Mac Pros.
Obviously some applications will be better suited to take advantage of multi-core Macs, so your mileage may vary, and decisions on 8-Core performance should be made based on the applications you use.
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63 months ago
How about performance per $? That would be more useful since the 8-core Macs are way more expensive than the 4-cores...
63 months ago
Obviously they unveiled the 8 core for NAB, they wanted to highlight "all 8 cores running at 100%" which gave them a 3x speed up.
63 months ago
It makes sense to me that the gaming results are no different. Are there many games that even utilize multiple cores? :confused:
P-Worm
P-Worm
63 months ago
It makes sense to me that the gaming results are no different. Are there many games that even utilize multiple cores? :confused:
P-Worm
I guess a pro machine shouldn't be used for games ;)
63 months ago
has anybody tested the new fc pro? one would expect that that uses the newest machine to its fullest.
63 months ago
While the gaming benchmarks are interesting in themselves, I gotta wonder who would consider this as a serious part of the purchase decision.
Then again, if you ARE buying this for gaming, you'd be a girly-man for getting less than two 30" monitors.
Then again, if you ARE buying this for gaming, you'd be a girly-man for getting less than two 30" monitors.
63 months ago
i'd be curious to see benchmarks for Adobe CS3 when it's released... Photoshop CS3 Beta is alot better on my Intel iMac than the crashtastic CS2 programs, but it's still a bit sketchy, and therefore not something worth benchmarking (IMHO).
63 months ago
yeah, i bet the new fcs will take advantage of the 8-cores.....or at least i sure hope so
63 months ago
I'm guessing that one of the best benchmarks for something like the 8 core would be a render test using some 3D app like Blender or Maya. Rendering CG is supposed to be purely CPU and the graphics card and memory has little to do with it. Am I right on this?
P-Worm
P-Worm
63 months ago
It's worth it to note that gains in Quicktime exporting were nonexistent for single exports. The recorded gains were when performing 6 simultaneous exports. Unless you are forced to export 6 things at once, I would not chock this up as a win for the ocho.
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