jregdi Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 For all of you who are getting weird very high or very low xbench results, be aware that XBench is really only good at benchmarking PPC macs, and even then, it's better to compare same CPU class (G3 vs G3.) I ran XBench on a Core Duo iMac at a FutureShop and got 57, which is lower than a 1.8 GHz single G4 with a radeon 9800! XBench is notorious for being sensitive to different hardware. J Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14236-xbench-is-flaky/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icebreaker Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 I´m not so sure that xbench is flaky. I have read posts about Core duo performing worse than G5 per clockspeed and the G4 is pretty good chip. I have learned that there is always some hype around Apple´s hardware and Apple has more fanboys than any other hardware maker on the planet. So maybe you just were taken in by the salesman... Just look at the benchmarks from people on this web and see how many PCs are performing much better than Apple computers. My iMac is not 12 month old, but still it´s performing much worse than equally old and priced PCs.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14236-xbench-is-flaky/#findComment-90977 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jregdi Posted April 7, 2006 Author Share Posted April 7, 2006 I didn't talk to a salesman about this. XBench weirdness is well-documented all over the place. My buddy with a dual G4 1.25 GHz got ~65. You can't tell me that XBench wants us to believe that a new Core Duo machine runs more slowly than a 3-year-old dual G4. I'm not saying XBench is ALWAYS wrong, but it's hardware compatibility is tenuous at best. J Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14236-xbench-is-flaky/#findComment-91096 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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