InsanelyMac Forum > Low xbench scores on e4500/9600GT

Jazzle

Mar 27 2009, 04:17 PM

Hi all,
I think my xbench scores are on the low side, considering I got a 9600GT.
Quartz extreme is supported and core image is hardware accelerated (only thing I did was add efi string for my graphics card). Both the cores of my e4500 are working.

I installed Leopard 10.5.6 through iPC's 10.5.6 final release, I use vanilla kernel, and default efi v9 bootloader. The only drivers I installed where ALC662, Intel ICHx and Realtek 1000. I haven't installed dsdt, could that be a problem? Oh, btw, I also installed 'latest graphics drivers from macbook',(which should be for 9600GT) but I don't think they're used as I use an efi string.

My scores:

CODE

esults    179.92
    System Info
        Xbench Version        1.3
        System Version        10.5.6 (9G55)
        Physical RAM        4096 MB
        Model        945GCM-S2L
        Drive Type        ST380013AS ST380013AS
    CPU Test    137.48
        GCD Loop    259.39    13.67 Mops/sec
        Floating Point Basic    125.04    2.97 Gflop/sec
        vecLib FFT    100.02    3.30 Gflop/sec
        Floating Point Library    138.05    24.04 Mops/sec
    Thread Test    209.27
        Computation    195.13    3.95 Mops/sec, 4 threads
        Lock Contention    225.62    9.71 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
    Memory Test    141.86
        System    142.77
            Allocate    175.33    643.86 Kalloc/sec
            Fill    134.54    6541.74 MB/sec
            Copy    126.97    2622.46 MB/sec
        Stream    140.96
            Copy    129.56    2676.01 MB/sec
            Scale    131.04    2707.31 MB/sec
            Add    152.82    3255.34 MB/sec
            Triad    154.24    3299.68 MB/sec
    Quartz Graphics Test    213.09
        Line    163.48    10.88 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
        Rectangle    223.53    66.74 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
        Circle    181.12    14.76 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
        Bezier    170.40    4.30 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
        Text    673.82    42.15 Kchars/sec
    OpenGL Graphics Test    154.33
        Spinning Squares    154.33    195.77 frames/sec
    User Interface Test    325.25
        Elements    325.25    1.49 Krefresh/sec

Giorgio_multi

Mar 27 2009, 04:23 PM

QUOTE (Jazzle @ Mar 27 2009, 05:17 PM)

Hi all,
I think my xbench scores are on the low side, considering I got a 9600GT.
Quartz extreme is supported and core image is hardware accelerated (only thing I did was add efi string for my graphics card). Both the cores of my e4500 are working.

I installed Leopard 10.5.6 through iPC's 10.5.6 final release, I use vanilla kernel, and default efi v9 bootloader. The only drivers I installed where ALC662, Intel ICHx and Realtek 1000. I haven't installed dsdt, could that be a problem? Oh, btw, I also installed 'latest graphics drivers from macbook',(which should be for 9600GT) but I don't think they're used as I use an efi string.

My scores:

CODE

esults    179.92
    System Info
        Xbench Version        1.3
        System Version        10.5.6 (9G55)
        Physical RAM        4096 MB
        Model        945GCM-S2L
        Drive Type        ST380013AS ST380013AS
    CPU Test    137.48
        GCD Loop    259.39    13.67 Mops/sec
        Floating Point Basic    125.04    2.97 Gflop/sec
        vecLib FFT    100.02    3.30 Gflop/sec
        Floating Point Library    138.05    24.04 Mops/sec
    Thread Test    209.27
        Computation    195.13    3.95 Mops/sec, 4 threads
        Lock Contention    225.62    9.71 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
    Memory Test    141.86
        System    142.77
            Allocate    175.33    643.86 Kalloc/sec
            Fill    134.54    6541.74 MB/sec
            Copy    126.97    2622.46 MB/sec
        Stream    140.96
            Copy    129.56    2676.01 MB/sec
            Scale    131.04    2707.31 MB/sec
            Add    152.82    3255.34 MB/sec
            Triad    154.24    3299.68 MB/sec
    Quartz Graphics Test    213.09
        Line    163.48    10.88 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
        Rectangle    223.53    66.74 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
        Circle    181.12    14.76 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
        Bezier    170.40    4.30 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
        Text    673.82    42.15 Kchars/sec
    OpenGL Graphics Test    154.33
        Spinning Squares    154.33    195.77 frames/sec
    User Interface Test    325.25
        Elements    325.25    1.49 Krefresh/sec

Your Xbench score is right for your hardware.

Giorgio

Jazzle

Mar 27 2009, 04:27 PM

QUOTE (Giorgio_multi @ Mar 27 2009, 05:23 PM)

Your Xbench score is right for your hardware.

Giorgio

Oke! I thought my cpu score was about right, but my 9600GT scores just the same as a 8600GT? (which is like 2 times slower in games), but I guess that's just xbench being a crappy benchmark?

Giorgio_multi

Mar 27 2009, 05:17 PM

QUOTE (Jazzle @ Mar 27 2009, 05:27 PM)

Oke! I thought my cpu score was about right, but my 9600GT scores just the same as a 8600GT? (which is like 2 times slower in games), but I guess that's just xbench being a crappy benchmark?

Xbench is not reliable, especially about the graphics cards.

Geekbench is a good bench, but don't test graphics.

Giorgio

mic.mac.hack

Mar 27 2009, 08:38 PM

I got similar hardware to you; E4500 and 9800GT, my CPU score is exact same as yours when running at stock (can get 184 when OC to 3GHz) and I was at first dissapointed with my 9800GT's score. I think it may be because we both have one of the cards that underclock themselves when running non 3D applications and the graphics card doesn't clock itself up when we run Xbench. If games are running good on windows, there is nothing to worry about.

striggell

Apr 17 2009, 10:47 AM

Here's my result with an Asus 9600GT, Q9400 and Asus p5K-e

Results 179.91
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.6 (9G55)
Physical RAM 8192 MB
Model MacPro2,1
Drive Type ST3500418AS
CPU Test 181.96
GCD Loop 313.46 16.52 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 153.61 3.65 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 127.38 4.20 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 225.59 39.28 Mops/sec
Thread Test 637.98
Computation 1089.41 22.07 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 451.07 19.41 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 226.60
System 252.13
Allocate 292.86 1.08 Malloc/sec
Fill 217.07 10554.21 MB/sec
Copy 257.92 5327.15 MB/sec
Stream 205.77
Copy 194.30 4013.09 MB/sec
Scale 190.47 3934.97 MB/sec
Add 221.30 4714.25 MB/sec
Triad 221.08 4729.53 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 192.67
Line 223.94 14.91 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 182.33 54.44 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 287.09 23.40 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 92.51 2.33 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 585.57 36.63 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 194.68
Spinning Squares 194.68 246.97 frames/sec
User Interface Test 352.93
Elements 352.93 1.62 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 70.07
Sequential 149.99
Uncached Write 200.87 123.33 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 200.55 113.47 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 79.68 23.32 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 240.70 120.98 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 45.71
Uncached Write 14.76 1.56 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 228.24 73.07 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 101.08 0.72 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 182.56 33.87 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Cyberdog !

May 6 2009, 11:12 AM

For graphic's test

see one of my last post