| Mac Intel benchmarks [message #49919] |
Tue, 29 August 2006 13:22  |
K. Bowman
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Registered: May 2000
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Thanks to Lou Wicker at NSSL I have some IDL benchmarks for a 3 GHz Mac Pro.
You can see the details at http://idl.tamu.edu/mac_bench.php.
It looks like the Mac Pro is consistently about twice as fast as the 2.5 GHz
PowerMac G5.
I'm always happy to have the opportunity to make mistakes faster. :-)
Cheers, Ken
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| Re: Mac Intel benchmarks [message #50030 is a reply to message #49919] |
Wed, 06 September 2006 00:23  |
Paolo Grigis
Messages: 171
Registered: December 2003
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usenet.spamacct@gmail.com wrote:
> Unfortunately I have to run windows XP under boot camp on my flash new
> system until I can complete a particular project. Fortunately that
> gives me an excellent excuse to burn time while I configure and
> "assess" two systems in one...
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> The machine is only a 2.66 GHz Mac Pro, with 4x512MB = 2GB RAM. The
> numbers I get are, FYI:
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> (IDL 6.3, x86 native for each OS)
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> time_test3:
> OS X: 0.89
> wxp: 0.55
That even seems larger that the XP vs. Linux performance gap...
one really wonders why windows is so much faster?
Ciao,
Paolo
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> JD's test:
> OS X: 0.16 - 0.17
> wxp: 0.17 - 0.18
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> Each test was run numerous times, ignoring the first instance. I'm too
> tired and harried to eyeball a mean for JD's test so I give the range.
> For what it's worth, XP is run off a seagate 7200.10 320GB sataII drive
> in drive bay 3.
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> I wonder what the 3GHz running windows would do to time_test3?
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> Cheers,
> kelly crowell, humble lurker
>
> $LN + "world" <spiralish-at-thing> pobox <period> com
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| Re: Mac Intel benchmarks [message #50034 is a reply to message #49919] |
Tue, 05 September 2006 11:54 |
usenet.spamacct
Messages: 4
Registered: September 2006
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Unfortunately I have to run windows XP under boot camp on my flash new
system until I can complete a particular project. Fortunately that
gives me an excellent excuse to burn time while I configure and
"assess" two systems in one...
The machine is only a 2.66 GHz Mac Pro, with 4x512MB = 2GB RAM. The
numbers I get are, FYI:
(IDL 6.3, x86 native for each OS)
time_test3:
OS X: 0.89
wxp: 0.55
JD's test:
OS X: 0.16 - 0.17
wxp: 0.17 - 0.18
Each test was run numerous times, ignoring the first instance. I'm too
tired and harried to eyeball a mean for JD's test so I give the range.
For what it's worth, XP is run off a seagate 7200.10 320GB sataII drive
in drive bay 3.
I wonder what the 3GHz running windows would do to time_test3?
Cheers,
kelly crowell, humble lurker
$LN + "world" <spiralish-at-thing> pobox <period> com
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