procyon Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 Hi everyone: Some Mathematica 5.2 Benchmarks: - P4 3.2 GHz, 1GB RAM: Linux -> 1.33 - P4 3.2 GHz, 1GB RAM: Windows XP -> 1.42 - iMac Intel Core Duo 2.0 GHz, 1GB RAM, 256 MB Video (Mathematica 5.2.2 Universal Binary, downloadable from Wolfram as Trial Version)-> 0.925 Procyon. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11187-mathematica-benchmarks/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
procyon Posted April 9, 2006 Author Share Posted April 9, 2006 One more benchmark: With the same machine as above, running Parallels Workstation 2.1 Beta 2 (opening 512MB of memory for it) with Mathematica 5.2 for Windows XP, I obtain a score of 8.6. So it seems a nearly native execution. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11187-mathematica-benchmarks/#findComment-92179 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 Thanks for the benchmarks, procyon. Did it get an 8.6 or a .86 score in Parallels? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11187-mathematica-benchmarks/#findComment-92974 Share on other sites More sharing options...
procyon Posted April 11, 2006 Author Share Posted April 11, 2006 You are right, .86 of course (sorry). Thank you Mashugly. By the way, the machine is the iMac. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11187-mathematica-benchmarks/#findComment-93639 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelord Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 Hi, Can you please tell me what did you do to get this numbers? I mean what they represent? I'm interested in doing some of them myself but I don't know how. thnx. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11187-mathematica-benchmarks/#findComment-93776 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLVR6 Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 Hi everyone: Some Mathematica 5.2 Benchmarks: - P4 3.2 GHz, 1GB RAM: Linux -> 1.33 - P4 3.2 GHz, 1GB RAM: Windows XP -> 1.42 - iMac Intel Core Duo 2.0 GHz, 1GB RAM, 256 MB Video (Mathematica 5.2.2 Universal Binary, downloadable from Wolfram as Trial Version)-> 0.925 Procyon. \ What you have shown here is exactly what I would expect to see, roughly a 30% speed increase (comparing linux and OSX). I use a software at work that is very CPU intensive and in my benchmarking machines, Pentium M and "Core" machines are much faster than P4's. To compare the reletive CPU speed to the P4 you need to roughly double the speed of the Pentium M or core chips. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11187-mathematica-benchmarks/#findComment-93920 Share on other sites More sharing options...
procyon Posted April 12, 2006 Author Share Posted April 12, 2006 thelord: The numbers represent a score given by Mathematica. You can obtain your own scores doing: << Utilities`Benchmark` BenchmarkReport[] SLVR6: I agree with you, I think the score in OSX is fair if we consider only one core processor of such frequency. I just expected an optimized version of Mathematica for the new dual-core processors. I suppose we will have to wait for the personal grid edition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11187-mathematica-benchmarks/#findComment-94352 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelord Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 Thanx for the info I think that it's not about core duo being slower than P4. I think it's more about optimizing mathematica on mac os x for intel cpu-s. I ran benchmark on my P4 2.8E (to be honest there was some apps running in background, but nothing cpu intensive) 512MB ram and the score was 0.8 comparing to P4 2.4 on windows whitch sets reference at 1.0. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11187-mathematica-benchmarks/#findComment-94936 Share on other sites More sharing options...
procyon Posted April 14, 2006 Author Share Posted April 14, 2006 Here is a message from Wolfram about the Universal version of Mathematica Personal Grid Edition. I thought it could be of interest for someone: Hello, thank you for the email correspondence. If you purchase the Macintosh version of Mathematica Personal Grid Edition, you will get a CD that has a Universal BInary on it so it will work on both the Intel based Macintosh computers as well as the G5 series. I should mention that Personal Grid Edition is intended for use on systems with 4 CPUs, or cores. I don't belive that Apple has released an Intel system with this many CPUs or cores and so it isn't clear what benefit this will provide you. It will run, but the speed improvement you can acheive is directly related to the number of CPUs you have. Currently, Apple has dual core systems which wouldn't provide any benefit for parallel computing. If they had a dual dual-core system then that would be ideal, but with only two processors/cores you would not see a speedup in parallel programming. Do you have an application in mind for which you think Personal Grid Edition would benfit you? I look forward to hearing from you soon. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11187-mathematica-benchmarks/#findComment-96072 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigname Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 My q6600 oxs86 gets 2.66 under Mathematica 6 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11187-mathematica-benchmarks/#findComment-800796 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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