Faster, Stronger, Better

September 10, 2003

So the ITS No Help Desk got a G5 for the Demo Center today, so I thought I would take it upon myself to do some benchmarks to see how it compares against previous models. Click here See below for the results. Also, as you can see, the Cub’s Magic Number is back in business.

G4 Cube Results 54.14 System Info Xbench Version 1.1 System Version 10.2.6 Physical RAM 192 MB Model PowerMac5,1 Processor PowerPC G4 @ 450 MHz Version 7400 (Max) v2.9 L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data) L2 Cache 1024K @ 225 MHz Bus Frequency 100 MHz Video Card ATY,Rage128Pro Drive Type IBM-DTLA-305020 CPU Test 41.22 GCD Recursion 47.28 1.85 Mops/sec Floating Point Basic 65.55 233.13 Mflop/sec AltiVec Basic 56.30 817.77 Mflop/sec vecLib FFT 18.00 277.37 Mflop/sec Floating Point Library 86.32 3.46 Mops/sec Thread Test 34.26 Computation 29.35 236.48 Kops/sec, 4 threads Lock Contention 41.13 516.30 Klocks/sec, 4 threads Memory Test 65.00 System 58.85 Allocate 85.20 28.73 Kalloc/sec Fill 58.96 469.35 MB/sec Copy 44.89 224.44 MB/sec Stream 72.57 Copy 71.66 292.22 MB/sec [altivec] Scale 70.54 293.03 MB/sec [altivec] Add 73.67 310.87 MB/sec [altivec] Triad 74.55 306.85 MB/sec [altivec] Quartz Graphics Test 62.53 Line 54.86 1.40 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 68.33 4.81 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 67.59 1.56 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 63.58 690.82 beziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 60.33 983.40 chars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 85.46 Spinning Squares 85.46 59.81 frames/sec User Interface Test 57.07 Elements 57.07 19.42 refresh/sec Disk Test 65.62 Sequential 70.75 Uncached Write 70.04 27.88 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 67.94 26.52 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 79.45 12.58 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 66.87 27.02 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 61.18 Uncached Write 52.45 0.75 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 55.37 12.49 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 71.97 0.47 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 69.64 14.33 MB/sec [256K blocks]

G4 Tower Results 108.80 System Info Xbench Version 1.1.1 System Version 10.2.6 (6L60) Physical RAM 256 MB Model PowerMac3,6 Processor PowerPC G4x2 @ 867 MHz Version 7455 (Apollo) v2.1 L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data) L2 Cache 256K @ 867 MHz L3 Cache 1024K @ 217 MHz Bus Frequency 134 MHz Video Card GeForce4 MX Drive Type IBM-IC35L060AVVA07-0 CPU Test 108.37 GCD Loop 107.76 4.21 Mops/sec Floating Point Basic 108.73 393.22 Mflop/sec AltiVec Basic 107.74 3.13 Gflop/sec vecLib FFT 108.78 1.69 Gflop/sec Floating Point Library 108.85 4.36 Mops/sec Thread Test 109.39 Computation 110.10 881.49 Kops/sec, 4 threads Lock Contention 108.70 1.36 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads Memory Test 106.58 System 109.25 Allocate 108.63 73.25 Kalloc/sec Fill 169.16 1346.48 MB/sec Copy 81.02 405.09 MB/sec Stream 104.04 Copy 103.29 755.02 MB/sec [altivec] Scale 101.90 752.02 MB/sec [altivec] Add 100.00 639.98 MB/sec [altivec] Triad 111.71 682.55 MB/sec [altivec] Quartz Graphics Test 114.54 Line 113.59 2.89 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 116.49 8.20 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 119.05 2.74 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 109.46 1.19 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 114.52 1.87 Kchars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 108.58 Spinning Squares 108.58 75.98 frames/sec User Interface Test 112.93 Elements 112.93 36.32 refresh/sec Disk Test 112.22 Sequential 121.86 Uncached Write 115.93 46.15 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 114.76 44.79 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 155.86 24.67 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 110.26 44.55 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 104.00 Uncached Write 103.02 1.47 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 109.03 24.59 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 99.41 0.66 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 105.02 21.61 MB/sec [256K blocks]

G5 Tower Results 138.60 System Info Xbench Version 1.1.1 System Version 10.2.7 (G5) (6S80) Physical RAM 512 MB Model PowerMac7,2 Processor PowerPC 970 @ 1.80 GHz L1 Cache 64K (instruction), 32K (data) L2 Cache 512K @ 1.80 GHz Bus Frequency 900 MHz Video Card GeForce FX 5200 Drive Type ST3160023AS CPU Test 121.91 GCD Loop 73.27 2.86 Mops/sec Floating Point Basic 211.09 763.39 Mflop/sec AltiVec Basic 85.74 2.49 Gflop/sec vecLib FFT 141.24 2.19 Gflop/sec Floating Point Library 257.28 10.30 Mops/sec Thread Test 83.75 Computation 62.36 499.31 Kops/sec, 4 threads Lock Contention 127.46 1.60 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads Memory Test 220.73 System 205.87 Allocate 441.51 297.71 Kalloc/sec Fill 142.12 1131.31 MB/sec Copy 189.72 948.59 MB/sec Stream 237.89 Copy 202.83 1482.72 MB/sec [G5] Scale 209.66 1547.31 MB/sec [G5] Add 273.46 1750.16 MB/sec [G5] Triad 289.20 1767.04 MB/sec [G5] Quartz Graphics Test 170.51 Line 193.09 4.92 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 176.16 12.39 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 177.28 4.09 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 165.75 1.80 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 147.16 2.40 Kchars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 196.17 Spinning Squares 196.17 137.28 frames/sec User Interface Test 167.06 Elements 167.06 53.73 refresh/sec Disk Test 112.57 Sequential 119.27 Uncached Write 149.49 59.51 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 143.17 55.88 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 80.23 12.70 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 135.14 54.60 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 106.58 Uncached Write 100.21 1.43 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 109.55 24.71 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 101.92 0.67 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 116.13 23.90 MB/sec [256K blocks]

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