tendycq Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 nothing better, whats wrong? everyone said new kernel is faster here....... 841 kernel Results 71.93 System Info Xbench Version 1.3 System Version 10.4.8 (8L2127) Physical RAM 512 MB Model ADP2,1 Drive Type WDC WD800BD-88LRA0 CPU Test 64.36 GCD Loop 85.22 4.49 Mops/sec Floating Point Basic 73.23 1.74 Gflop/sec vecLib FFT 48.55 1.60 Gflop/sec Floating Point Library 61.86 10.77 Mops/sec Thread Test 156.15 Computation 139.81 2.83 Mops/sec, 4 threads Lock Contention 176.82 7.61 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads Memory Test 85.44 System 75.73 Allocate 53.64 196.97 Kalloc/sec Fill 111.90 5441.01 MB/sec Copy 83.10 1716.46 MB/sec Stream 98.02 Copy 94.16 1944.79 MB/sec Scale 95.32 1969.36 MB/sec Add 102.24 2177.96 MB/sec Triad 100.83 2157.10 MB/sec Quartz Graphics Test 81.91 Line 81.13 5.40 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 74.78 22.33 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 73.81 6.02 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 87.73 2.21 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 96.21 6.02 Kchars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 183.41 Spinning Squares 183.41 232.67 frames/sec User Interface Test 125.16 Elements 125.16 574.41 refresh/sec Disk Test 26.31 Sequential 33.37 Uncached Write 17.29 10.62 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 42.42 24.00 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 51.32 15.02 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 52.72 26.50 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 21.71 Uncached Write 7.14 0.76 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 55.56 17.79 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 71.05 0.50 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 82.36 15.28 MB/sec [256K blocks] new kernel Results 72.12 System Info Xbench Version 1.3 System Version 10.4.8 (8L2127) Physical RAM 512 MB Model ACPI Drive Type WDC WD800BD-88LRA0 CPU Test 64.50 GCD Loop 85.11 4.49 Mops/sec Floating Point Basic 73.46 1.75 Gflop/sec vecLib FFT 48.16 1.59 Gflop/sec Floating Point Library 62.92 10.96 Mops/sec Thread Test 156.15 Computation 140.45 2.85 Mops/sec, 4 threads Lock Contention 175.80 7.56 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads Memory Test 87.51 System 80.59 Allocate 60.54 222.32 Kalloc/sec Fill 111.76 5434.12 MB/sec Copy 85.05 1756.64 MB/sec Stream 95.73 Copy 91.52 1890.23 MB/sec Scale 92.57 1912.51 MB/sec Add 100.12 2132.86 MB/sec Triad 99.35 2125.40 MB/sec Quartz Graphics Test 83.66 Line 81.32 5.41 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 78.45 23.42 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 77.06 6.28 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 85.30 2.15 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 99.81 6.24 Kchars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 187.44 Spinning Squares 187.44 237.78 frames/sec User Interface Test 128.04 Elements 128.04 587.65 refresh/sec Disk Test 25.89 Sequential 45.73 Uncached Write 42.57 26.14 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 44.71 25.30 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 46.63 13.65 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 49.59 24.93 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 18.05 Uncached Write 5.98 0.63 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 48.04 15.38 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 52.58 0.37 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 68.59 12.73 MB/sec [256K blocks] Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36743-the-new-kernel-is-better/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
skn Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 As far as I know Rosetta is faster, but in order to use it you need the new 8.8.1 kernel... Benchmark your system again, but run the program using Rosetta/PPC emulation (select it in "Get Info" option). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36743-the-new-kernel-is-better/#findComment-261267 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tendycq Posted December 25, 2006 Author Share Posted December 25, 2006 oh yeah about 10% to 20% better. thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36743-the-new-kernel-is-better/#findComment-261319 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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