aldrlandon93 Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 Hey, I have my RAM overclocked to 819MHz in the bios stably, but it shows up as 667MHz in system profiler. I was also wondering if a score of 3950 in geekbench sound right for my system, which is: Core 2 Duo e4500 overclocked to 3GHz stably 2GB DDR2 RAM overclocked to 819MHz stably in the bios Geforce 8800 GT 512MB Overclocked Gigabyte p35-ds3l motherboard 600W OCZ PSU OSX Leopard 10.5.3 with 9.2.0 patched kernel to have the ability to shut down I was also wondering if you knew if the built in drivers in os x for nvidia cards like mine (enabled with the efi strings) are as optimized as the windows drivers are as far as performance goes. Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113874-incorrect-ram-speed-and-question-about-geekbench/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldrlandon93 Posted July 4, 2008 Author Share Posted July 4, 2008 Anyone? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113874-incorrect-ram-speed-and-question-about-geekbench/#findComment-807068 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerraPhantm Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 I'm not sure about your geekbench score. Mine is quite a bit higher (7477), but my system is also faster by a good amount too (Core2 Quad @ 3.7, 9800GTX, 4GBs RAM). My RAM speed also misreports, it's detected at 1033MHz instead of the 1096 that it runs at. I highly doubt the drivers are near as optimized, OSX isn't anywhere near as large of a gaming/benchmarking platform as Windows, so there would be no reason for nVidia to optimize the drivers for it. Here's my geekbench results in case you want to compare things on a case-by-case basis. If any of the single-treaded benchmarks are significantly lower (let's say >25% slower), there may be a problem with your performance. Platform: Mac OS X x86 (32-bit) Compiler: GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465) Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5.4 (Build 9E17) Model: Hackintosh Motherboard: DFI Inc. LP LT X38 1.0 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz Processor ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11 Logical Processors: 4 Physical Processors: 1 Processor Frequency: 3.70 GHz L1 Instruction Cache: 32.0 KB L1 Data Cache: 32.0 KB L2 Cache: 4.00 MB L3 Cache: 0.00 B Bus Frequency: 1.64 GHz Memory: 4.00 GB Memory Type: 1033 MHz DDR2 SDRAM SIMD: 1 BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG Processor Model: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Integer (Score: 6872) Blowfish single-threaded scalar -- 3063, 1.0, 134.5 MB/sec Blowfish multi-threaded scalar -- 12819, 3.9, 525.3 MB/sec Text Compress single-threaded scalar -- 2917, 1.0, 9.33 MB/sec Text Compress multi-threaded scalar -- 10880, 3.8, 35.7 MB/sec Text Decompress single-threaded scalar -- 2570, 1.0, 10.6 MB/sec Text Decompress multi-threaded scalar -- 10392, 3.9, 41.4 MB/sec Image Compress single-threaded scalar -- 2668, 1.0, 22.0 Mpixels/sec Image Compress multi-threaded scalar -- 10332, 3.9, 86.9 Mpixels/sec Image Decompress single-threaded scalar -- 2169, 1.0, 36.4 Mpixels/sec Image Decompress multi-threaded scalar -- 8202, 3.7, 133.8 Mpixels/sec Crafty Chess single-threaded scalar -- 3149, 1.0, 1.59 Mnodes/sec Crafty Chess multi-threaded scalar -- 8374, 2.6, 4.06 Mnodes/sec Lua single-threaded scalar -- 3760, 1.0, 1.45 Mnodes/sec Lua multi-threaded scalar -- 14923, 4.0, 5.74 Mnodes/sec Floating Point (Score: 11207) Mandelbrot single-threaded scalar -- 2767, 1.0, 1.84 Gflops Mandelbrot multi-threaded scalar -- 11138, 4.0, 7.29 Gflops Dot Product single-threaded scalar -- 4368, 1.0, 2.11 Gflops Dot Product multi-threaded scalar -- 16180, 3.5, 7.37 Gflops Dot Product single-threaded vector -- 3051, 1.7, 3.66 Gflops Dot Product multi-threaded vector -- 10522, 5.2, 10.9 Gflops LU Decomposition single-threaded scalar -- 1056, 1.0, 940.4 Mflops LU Decomposition multi-threaded scalar -- 4222, 3.9, 3.70 Gflops Primality Test single-threaded scalar -- 5258, 1.0, 785.4 Mflops Primality Test multi-threaded scalar -- 15729, 3.7, 2.92 Gflops Sharpen Image single-threaded scalar -- 7440, 1.0, 17.4 Mpixels/sec Sharpen Image multi-threaded scalar -- 28820, 3.8, 66.4 Mpixels/sec Blur Image single-threaded scalar -- 9611, 1.0, 7.61 Mpixels/sec Blur Image multi-threaded scalar -- 36740, 3.8, 28.9 Mpixels/sec Memory (Score: 4030) Read Sequential single-threaded scalar -- 5430, 1.0, 6.65 GB/sec Write Sequential single-threaded scalar -- 4890, 1.0, 3.34 GB/sec Stdlib Allocate single-threaded scalar -- 3049, 1.0, 11.4 Mallocs/sec Stdlib Write single-threaded scalar -- 3290, 1.0, 6.81 GB/sec Stdlib Copy single-threaded scalar -- 3491, 1.0, 3.60 GB/sec Stream (Score: 3439) Stream Copy single-threaded scalar -- 3557, 1.0, 4.86 GB/sec Stream Copy single-threaded vector -- 3859, 1.0, 5.01 GB/sec Stream Scale single-threaded scalar -- 3899, 1.0, 5.06 GB/sec Stream Scale single-threaded vector -- 3718, 1.0, 5.02 GB/sec Stream Add single-threaded scalar -- 2763, 1.0, 4.17 GB/sec Stream Add single-threaded vector -- 3836, 1.3, 5.34 GB/sec Stream Triad single-threaded scalar -- 3039, 1.0, 4.20 GB/sec Stream Triad single-threaded vector -- 2842, 1.3, 5.32 GB/sec Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113874-incorrect-ram-speed-and-question-about-geekbench/#findComment-807771 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldrlandon93 Posted July 5, 2008 Author Share Posted July 5, 2008 Well, in my results, my single threaded results are almost half of what MY multi-threaded test scores are, but it seems like my score is fine after looking at yours. Thats such a bummer about the drivers, because I really like os x, but it seems like kind of a waste if you have an 8800 gt and the drivers aren't even optimized for it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113874-incorrect-ram-speed-and-question-about-geekbench/#findComment-808229 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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