erbic Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 9A466 has been working with almost no issues on my late-2006-model Macbook Pro. (2.33 GHz Core 2 Duo). I decided to run Geekbench 2 on it tonight to see if the performance stats are any different from when I had Tiger on the computer, and I noticed something strange... As you can see, Geekbench reports my system as being 32-bit. And I know it's a 64-bit proc, since I run 64-bit Linux on it. So what the heck's going on? Is 9A466 not actually a 64-bit system? Or is Geekbench just wrong? *gasp* EDIT: Incidentally, the results are a tiny bit better than when I ran this on Tiger. I don't think it's enough to say that Leopard made it faster, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turpentine Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 maybe geekbench is a 32bit app so it runs in 32bit leopard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo0019 Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 Interesting is there any other method for you to test it I'll like to see your results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erbic Posted June 26, 2007 Author Share Posted June 26, 2007 maybe geekbench is a 32bit app so it runs in 32bit leopard? That could be it... I'll try and find a "real" 64-bit benchmarking app and test it out. Is Xbench 64-bit? EDIT: Apparently not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turpentine Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 Interesting is there any other method for you to test it I'll like to see your results. get two identical machines and use an app that is probably 64 bit, like preview, and resize something or whatever in both leopard and tiger. unless preview was 64bit in tiger, but you get the idea. It isn't going to be easy/worth our trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 im pretty sure that geekbench2 is 32bit only while the old geekbench had a 32 and 64 version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfpoole Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 Geekbench 2 is only available as a 32-bit application on Mac OS X because it uses some APIs that aren't available to 64-bit applications under Tiger. Once Leopard is released there will be a 64-bit version for Mac OS X (although like other platforms the 64-bit version will only be available to registered users). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigxcpu Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 it is 64-bit: Leopard:~ sigxcpu$ file /usr/sbin/httpd /usr/sbin/httpd: Mach-O universal binary with 4 architectures /usr/sbin/httpd (for architecture ppc7400): Mach-O executable ppc /usr/sbin/httpd (for architecture ppc64): Mach-O 64-bit executable ppc64 /usr/sbin/httpd (for architecture i386): Mach-O executable i386 /usr/sbin/httpd (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64 and activity monitor show the process as Intel (64-bit) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukp Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 httpd appears to be the only application that is 64bit. The kernel and everything else is 32bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigxcpu Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 kernel cannot be 32 bit if an app is 64 bit and running in 64 bit mode. on the other hand, start chess game (included). so, there are at least two apps. btw, google more about 64-bit before posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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