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low open gl score (xbench) on dual 1ghz G4
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Jun 18, 2005, 02:13 AM
 
i recently noticed that my cousins computer which i'm in line for when he gets his new g5 was really acting crappy when using expose and dashboard. i ran xbench and found that everything looks normal but his OpenGL score was unusually low...25.22 to be exact. he recently added an ati 9200, along side his nvidia geforce4 mx, in an extra pci slot so that he could drive his two 24" dell displays...and he says that ever since then the problem has occured. is there a way to insert one of these incorrectly and still get both 24" screen's to work? it's really confusing for me...i know nothing of powermacs and this is really boggling my mind...thanks in advance here is the results below:

Results 83.67
System Info
Xbench Version 1.1.3
System Version 10.4.1 (8B15)
Physical RAM 1536 MB
Model PowerMac3,5
Processor PowerPC G4x2 @ 1.00 GHz
Version 7455 (Apollo) v2.1
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 256K @ 1.00 GHz
L3 Cache 2048K @ 250 MHz
Bus Frequency 134 MHz
Video Card GeForce4 MX
Drive Type Maxtor 6B250R0
CPU Test 123.52
GCD Loop 123.84 4.84 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 121.35 438.85 Mflop/sec
AltiVec Basic 122.29 3.55 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 122.81 1.91 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 127.49 5.10 Mops/sec
Thread Test 152.11
Computation 125.77 1.70 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 192.41 2.42 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 123.34
System 192.46
Allocate 505.30 329.61 Kalloc/sec
Fill 261.40 2080.78 MB/sec
Copy 102.21 511.07 MB/sec
Stream 90.75
Copy 88.33 645.72 MB/sec [altivec]
Scale 88.64 654.16 MB/sec [altivec]
Add 90.54 579.48 MB/sec [altivec]
Triad 95.86 585.69 MB/sec [altivec]
Quartz Graphics Test 109.06
Line 92.79 2.36 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 88.30 6.21 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 88.60 2.04 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 126.04 1.37 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 221.06 3.60 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 25.22
Spinning Squares 25.22 17.65 frames/sec
User Interface Test 269.75
Elements 269.75 86.77 refresh/sec
Disk Test 119.68
Sequential 109.25
Uncached Write 106.85 44.54 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 89.00 36.44 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 122.16 19.34 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 127.68 51.59 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 132.32
Uncached Write 698.07 10.47 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 113.28 25.55 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 102.56 0.68 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 97.84 20.14 MB/sec [256K blocks]
NOW YOU SEE ME! 2.4 MBP and 2.0 MBP (running ubuntu)
     
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Jun 18, 2005, 12:41 PM
 
Well for one thing xBench is very inaccurate especially for graphics testing.

Another thing is that the PCI bus is very slow for graphics so PCI cards tend to be signifigantly slower than AGP ones. If your cousin ran this test off the 9200 (on the moniter plugged into it) then the results are not surprising
     
   
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