More Mac Pro benchmark data
The other day I wrote of my impressions of my new Mac Pro, and some readers expressed interest in its benchmark scores. So today I am posting the data files of the results of two benchmarking utilities, Geekbench and XBench.
This is a stock Mac Pro with the twin 2.8 GHz Quad-core Xeons, 2 GB of RAM, 320 GB hard drive and the ATI Radeon 2600 HD graphics card. The stock hard drive appears to be a Seagate Barracuda with an 8 MB cache, which could account for the less than stellar hard drive scores. I will test again when the new 500 GB Barracudas arrive with 16 MB of cache.
I have run the tests several times, usually after a fresh reboot and with no other apps running. I also ran the Cocktail utility. My typical XBench score runs in the high 150s; Geekbench has ranged from 7550 to 7992. Don't ask me to explain it.
Here are the test results saved in the format of the benchmark app that created them. Click on the link to download:
Comments
I think the XBench application is going to need an update for these new 8-core machines. The scores are way down from what they should be.
Posted by: Constable Odo | January 14, 2008 11:27 PM