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I Xbenched my G4 MDD 867 DP / Panhter / Tiger

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#1 ·
Hi everyone,

I have just tested my MDD G4 867 DP 2gig ram, running Panther 10.3.9 and Tiger 10.4.4, on XBench.

Interested ???

A week ago, I upgraded to Tiger 10.4.4 from Panther 10.3.9, and reported a good speed increase in the CPU, so ! to satisfy my curiosity, I did the XBench test, to see the results.
Here is how it started.
I had a corrupt BTree something today, of witch I could not fix, and had to reinstall the whole nine yards, system software and applications from scratch, so I figured that while I am at it wasting my time, why not install Panther first, test it out, it only take a minute really, then upgrade to Tiger and retest it again, and I did just that.
I started this afternoon at around 2:30 pm ( not buy choice :mad: ), I needed my CPU running by tomorrow morning, or should I say this morning lol, and I have just finished doing the excise as of 1:16 am :yawn:, hoof ! what an exercise.
I need a beer ! ! ! a kick in the head, and some Tylenol's all mixed together.

Here are overall score and test results :clap:
Panther's 10.3.9 overall score : 33.76 :)
Tiger's 10.4.4 overall score : 40.91 :D
( see the details below )
I have not yet had the opportunity to test each sotware I use in dept, QuarkXpress, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and so on, but as soon as I do, I will post the results.

Here are the detailed results of my tests :
Panther's 10.3.9
Results 33.76
System Info
Xbench Version 1.2
System Version 10.3.9 (7W98)
Physical RAM 2048 MB
Model PowerMac3,6
Processor PowerPC G4x2 @ 867 MHz
Version 7455 (Apollo) v2.1
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 256K @ 867 MHz
L3 Cache 1024K @ 217 MHz
Bus Frequency 134 MHz
Video Card GeForce4 MX
Drive Type IBM-IC35L060AVVA07-0
CPU Test 36.43
GCD Loop 80.66 4.25 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 24.40 579.67 Mflop/sec
vecLib FFT 52.23 1.72 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 26.83 4.67 Mops/sec
Thread Test 52.86
Computation 74.92 1.52 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 40.83 1.76 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 25.17
System 33.50
Allocate 101.27 371.91 Kalloc/sec
Fill 32.73 1591.48 MB/sec
Copy 20.36 420.46 MB/sec
Stream 20.16
Copy 19.35 399.75 MB/sec [altivec]
Scale 19.05 393.52 MB/sec [altivec]
Add 20.86 444.47 MB/sec [altivec]
Triad 21.60 462.10 MB/sec [altivec]
Quartz Graphics Test 47.24
Line 45.64 3.04 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 39.15 11.69 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 39.94 3.26 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 52.66 1.33 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 69.63 4.36 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 51.34
Spinning Squares 51.34 65.12 frames/sec
User Interface Test 17.01
Elements 17.01 78.07 refresh/sec
Disk Test 45.80
Sequential 65.35
Uncached Write 37.73 23.17 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 79.00 44.70 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 94.36 27.61 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 87.34 43.89 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 35.26
Uncached Write 13.34 1.41 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 61.89 19.81 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 71.46 0.51 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 119.89 22.25 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Tiger's 10.4.4
Results 40.91
System Info
Xbench Version 1.2
System Version 10.4.4 (8G32)
Physical RAM 2048 MB
Model PowerMac3,6
Processor PowerPC G4x2 @ 867 MHz
Version 7455 (Apollo) v2.1
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 256K @ 867 MHz
L3 Cache 1024K @ 217 MHz
Bus Frequency 134 MHz
Video Card GeForce4 MX
Drive Type IBM-IC35L060AVVA07-0
CPU Test 36.78
GCD Loop 80.52 4.24 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 24.38 579.28 Mflop/sec
vecLib FFT 51.54 1.70 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 27.85 4.85 Mops/sec
Thread Test 61.87
Computation 73.25 1.48 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 53.55 2.30 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 25.11
System 33.15
Allocate 80.37 295.15 Kalloc/sec
Fill 35.17 1710.15 MB/sec
Copy 20.15 416.26 MB/sec
Stream 20.21
Copy 19.41 400.99 MB/sec [altivec]
Scale 19.15 395.63 MB/sec [altivec]
Add 20.94 445.99 MB/sec [altivec]
Triad 21.53 460.55 MB/sec [altivec]
Quartz Graphics Test 46.83
Line 40.79 2.72 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 41.40 12.36 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 41.24 3.36 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 52.10 1.31 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 68.24 4.27 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 56.44
Spinning Squares 56.44 71.60 frames/sec
User Interface Test 36.11
Elements 36.11 165.71 refresh/sec
Disk Test 47.25
Sequential 63.24
Uncached Write 37.65 23.12 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 76.19 43.11 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 85.52 25.03 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 84.20 42.32 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 37.71
Uncached Write 13.67 1.45 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 76.68 24.55 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 90.25 0.64 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 113.75 21.11 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Any comment ???

This was a long long day, and tomorrow will come soon enough, 5:30am :yikes: here I come XX) or maybe not.

Regards,
Denis

PS : If you wonder why it took so long, I had to get all my files from my back up, and place them where they belong, one at a time, because my back up also had a Btree something corrupt.
Can any one tell me where I can get my address book files from, I keep digging, but can not find them.
 
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#2 ·
Very cool results thanks for posting ... glad to see there's a performance benefit with Tiger.

I usually export my address book vcards and then drop them in the new install - works perfectly ...
 
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