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aoptic · May 16, 2003, 11:09 PM

I am running some xbench score on the two powerbooks, but i know the 15" will get better marks because the 12" does not have a L3 cache and is a lower processor... but the memory is DDR if they did not do that it would be faster then my 15" powerbook.

I will post both benchmarks when i get a hold of my cousin's new powerbook to post her xbench score.

seanyepez · May 16, 2003, 11:42 PM

The 12-inch PowerBook's extra memory bandwidth is not utilized.

Eug · May 16, 2003, 11:48 PM

The benches have been done a few times. Not surprisingly, the TiBook beats the 12" PB quite handily.

aoptic · May 18, 2003, 08:58 PM

15"
Grrrrr... my cousin has to give me her labtop to post her xbench results ....

Results 85.93
System Info
Xbench Version 1.0
System Version 10.2.6
Physical RAM 1024 MB
Model PowerBook3,5
Processor PowerPC G4 @ 1.00 GHz
Version 7455 (Apollo) v3.2
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 256K @ 667 MHz
L3 Cache 1024K @ 134 MHz
Bus Frequency 134 MHz
Video Card ATY,RV250M9
Drive Type TOSHIBA MK6021GAS
CPU Test 117.96
GCD Recursion 117.96 4.61 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 112.38 378.78 Mflop/sec
AltiVec Basic 124.84 6.77 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 117.32 5.27 Mops/sec
Thread Test 64.87
Computation 63.82 514.11 Kops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 65.96 827.90 Klocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 101.85
System 109.40
Allocate 155.71 52.50 Kalloc/sec
Fill 209.45 1201.05 MB/sec
Copy 61.63 308.15 MB/sec
Stream 95.28
Copy 95.25 416.53 MB/sec [altivec]
Scale 96.57 421.35 MB/sec [altivec]
Add 95.48 434.42 MB/sec [altivec]
Triad 93.86 412.42 MB/sec [altivec]
Quartz Graphics Test 121.15
Line 127.64 3.25 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 120.14 8.45 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 134.87 3.11 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 120.90 1.31 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 106.08 1.73 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 97.53
Spinning Squares 97.53 68.25 frames/sec
User Interface Test 108.20
Elements 108.20 36.81 refresh/sec
Disk Test 49.99
Sequential 52.18
Uncached Write 42.60 18.59 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 45.24 18.41 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 120.45 18.97 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 43.90 18.94 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 47.98
Uncached Write 45.24 0.68 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 41.96 9.63 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 53.44 0.35 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 53.40 10.47 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Eug · May 19, 2003, 09:16 AM

Macworld has just done the 12 vs 15 vs 17.

The 17" on average is a little bit faster than the 15, but the 15 beats the 17 in a few tests. Both beat the pants off the 12.

BTW, I get an Xbench score of 90 with the latest release of the software on my GigaBook 15".

Paco500 · May 19, 2003, 09:37 AM

Originally posted by aoptic:
15"
Grrrrr... my cousin has to give me her labtop to post her xbench results ....

I have to know- is this a typo or do you call it a "labtop?" I have run into several people in the past that insisted on calling it a "labtop" and I could never figure out why. I what way does it make sense?

I'm honestly not busting your chops, I'm just curious.

wallinbl · May 19, 2003, 11:31 AM

Originally posted by Paco500:
I what way does it make sense?

They had a cold at the time.

Paco500 · May 19, 2003, 08:01 PM

Originally posted by wallinbl:
They had a cold at the time.

That was a perfect post.

Thank you.

MacNStein · May 19, 2003, 10:47 PM

My 12" PB pulled down an Xbench of 78.55 (but that score was after my HD upgrade, I've never ran it before). That's quite respectable for this model, in comparison with all the other scores. It's about right in line with the 867MHz TiBooks.

But, FWIW, I think most benchmarks are worthless. All that matters is if you get your work done, and get it done efficiently. In those areas my PB does a great job.