Panther Tests
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 19:04:07 -0400
From: [MacInTouch reader]
Subject: ....benchmarks of Panther Preview on Pismo
Thought you would be interested in seeing some Xbench tests of Panther Preview vs. OS X 10.2.6. As you can see below, Quartz is now supported on the Pismo (ATI Rage Mobility).
Installation:
Installation was perfect, no problems. New Finder, Expose, and FAst Switching worked well. Only hitch, the "cube-effect" didn't work on the Pismo during Fast User Switching.Perhaps, its not supported on the Pismo yet.
Pismo Configuration: 400MHz, 1Gb RAM, Toshiba 40GAX
Panther Preview
Results: 42.68
CPU Test: 45.60
Thread Test: 35.05
Memory Test: 32.84
Quartz Graphics Test: 50.85 (Supported at last!)
OpenGL Graphics Test: 38.64
User Interface Test: 66.93
Disk Test: 44.20
OS X 10.2.6
Results: 32.88
CPU Test: 33.07
Thread Test: 24.61
Memory Test: 24.62
Quartz Graphics Test: None (Not supported)
OpenGL Graphics Test: 35.49
User Interface Test: 38.25
Disk Test: 59.92
Observations on Pismo:
Quartz is now supported on the Pismos (ATI Rage Mobility)
Panther is about 40% faster on the CPU tests.
User Interface is over 50% faster than OS X 10.2.6!
Only test where OS X 10.2.6 does better than PAnther is the Drive Test, over 30% slower than OS X 10.2.6. Probably due to Journelling. I'm sure this will speed up with final release.
Only have to say one thing, this Panther Preview rocks bigtime!