[t_hah]

According to Appleinsider, the new Intel Macs use build 8G1165.

I found an Intel Mac on the XBench site, that claims to be the Intel iMac. Here are the results from that computer: http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=150950

[mduell]

Is that using Rosetta, or the XBench native Intel app? If the latter, does it take advantage of SSE?

[arcticmac]

Originally Posted by mduell

Is that using Rosetta, or a XBench a native Intel app? If the latter, does it take advantage of SSE?

XBench's website says it's a universal binary. I don't know about this SSE stuff...

[mduell]

Sorry, my wording was poor. The first "a" should have been "the" and the second "a" should not have been there.
Was that benchmark done using the latest version (which is a Universal Binary), or an older version through Rosetta?
SSE is the SIMD unit on Intel CPUs; it's like Altivec on the G4 or VMX on the G5.

[arcticmac]

Originally Posted by mduell

Sorry, my wording was poor. The first "a" should have been "the" and the second "a" should not have been there.
Was that benchmark done using the latest version (which is a Universal Binary), or an older version through Rosetta?
SSE is the SIMD unit on Intel CPUs; it's like Altivec on the G4 or VMX on the G5.

thanks for the info on SSE...

if you'd taken time to actually READ the link that was presented, you'd notice that the xbench page with the results shows the version of xbench used in the test - 1.2, which, when you click on the version link above, brings you to the page that lists it as being a universal binary.

[t_hah]

I was at the Apple Store tonight and ran the XBench test on one of the Intel iMacs in the store. The results came out to be higher than the results in the link above. It was in the high 90s... for some reason I cannot seem to find the results on the XBench site. It is really badly organized. Argh!

Anyhow... the Intel iMac was very, very quick. I couldn't even tell that it was not running a PPC processor.

Nevermind... found it. Here is the link:
http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=151337