The number they use for propaganda is only theoretical. If you managed to write a program that actually got that in real life, you would be instantly offered jobs with some incredible salary. Conditions are never optimal in the real world... so only 15 GF on paper.
G4's are still hardly any more useful except for a few (5-6) things. Whats the point of this benchmark? its like running a floting point benchmark on a 68k machine with no FPU and comparing it to one that has one. comparing it to G3 cass machines is, well whats the point? Oh and my G4 gets 1316 and my G3 gets 353 but any other benchmark my G3 is faster oh wait my G3 is faster.
<strong>I thought Apple says the Dual GHz can get 15 Gflops? What's up with that?
Damn, the 933 is only half as fast? That means it would be a bad deal if I tried getting one. Makes sense but I dunno.</strong><hr></blockquote>
This test uses both proccesors fully, so 2 1gig proccessors have the power of 2ghz, twice the speed. In the real world thats not gonna happen, even in photoshop, its gonna use both proccessors but not fully like this app does. So yea it will be faster than the 933 but not double as fast like in the fractal test. Hey if you can afford it get the dual, i would have if i had more $, but the 933 is f'n fast. Just so you get an idea, its not really fair to compare but my 933 with 512 ram feels like 100% faster then my Ti 550 with 512 at work (especially in photoshop).
Im on a TiBook 667 (Rev and I found some weird results.
I ran the test with only Chimera running, and got 2112 MFLOPS. Thats with an instant refresh after launch of the app. (Usually got 2080 right after restart).
But when I zoomed in I got some interesting results:
01x: 1355
02x: 1119
03x: 1179
04x: 1372
05x: 1643
06x: 1776
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15x: 2159
16x: 2112
17x: 1969
20x: 1528
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What I find weird is that after 20x zoom, theres only one color to display, but its only working at 1500, while 15x is the fastest at 2159 when it has to dispay two colors).
Maybe it has something to do with the cache beeing loaded or something.
Ona side note: With these results, I want a DP 1.25 GHz machine!! :eek:
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2317.3 MegaFlops w/Altivec
332.3 w/o Altivec
G4 350mhz 128meg RAM
1st-11.5sec -1175.4megaflops
2nd-11.3sec-1192.7megaflops
-so any G4 gets a Gigaflop
3337.6 MegaFlops in OSX
so a little less than half the speed of a dual 1ghz, sounds right to me
Dual GHz
Damn, the 933 is only half as fast? That means it would be a bad deal if I tried getting one. Makes sense but I dunno.
-Ender
if I can only get afew more flops I could break 1600!
500 MHz G3
OS 9.2.1
45.1 seconds, 316.3 MFlops
If I zoom in on an all black portion, I can get 8.1-8.2 GFLOPS. Heh.
<strong>867 w/ 384MB and os 10.1.2
altivec on: 3209.9MFLOPS
altivec off: 455.2 MFLOPS
:eek:
so altivec /can/ make a difference</strong><hr></blockquote>
Same hardware config, but OS 9.2.1:
altivec on: 3108MFLOPS
altivec off: 455MFLOPS
<strong>I get around 6.9-7.0 GFLOPS on the default settings with my Dual GHz as well.
If I zoom in on an all black portion, I can get 8.1-8.2 GFLOPS. Heh.</strong><hr></blockquote>
heh I got a big bost too
from
1599 to 1699 gflops
damn it! what is with this G4 450 that it wont get that extra inch!!!
<strong>I thought Apple says the Dual GHz can get 15 Gflops? What's up with that?
Damn, the 933 is only half as fast? That means it would be a bad deal if I tried getting one. Makes sense but I dunno.</strong><hr></blockquote>
This test uses both proccesors fully, so 2 1gig proccessors have the power of 2ghz, twice the speed. In the real world thats not gonna happen, even in photoshop, its gonna use both proccessors but not fully like this app does. So yea it will be faster than the 933 but not double as fast like in the fractal test. Hey if you can afford it get the dual, i would have if i had more $, but the 933 is f'n fast. Just so you get an idea, its not really fair to compare but my 933 with 512 ram feels like 100% faster then my Ti 550 with 512 at work (especially in photoshop).
Results: default launch 9.3 seconds 1450.9 MegaFlops or 1.45 GigaFlops
Pretty bad number but this Mac feels quite quick for DSL web browsing, writing, mail.
Looking forward to Jaguar performance improvement. Still on teh fence about moving to the dual 1.25 GHz MysteryMac?
I ran the test with only Chimera running, and got 2112 MFLOPS. Thats with an instant refresh after launch of the app. (Usually got 2080 right after restart).
But when I zoomed in I got some interesting results:
01x: 1355
02x: 1119
03x: 1179
04x: 1372
05x: 1643
06x: 1776
---
15x: 2159
16x: 2112
17x: 1969
20x: 1528
---
What I find weird is that after 20x zoom, theres only one color to display, but its only working at 1500, while 15x is the fastest at 2159 when it has to dispay two colors).
Maybe it has something to do with the cache beeing loaded or something.
Ona side note: With these results, I want a DP 1.25 GHz machine!!
BoeManE