[funkboy]

I'm now very interested in the CineBench benchmark, especially when my 333 Mhz turned out these results:
Shading (CINEMA 4D) : 3.33 CB
Shading (OpenGL) : 2.74 CB
Raytracing (Single CPU) : 4.31 CB

While a G4 500 MHz with a Radeon AGP turned out:
5.35
6.75
6.62

Could someone be so kind to download the try out the CineBench? Here's the URL:
Benchmark download URL

[Bugs Bunny]

iBook with 384 MB ram:

Cinebench 2000 V1.0 Performance

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Shading (CINEMA 4D) : 3.82 CB
Shading (OpenGL) : 4.40 CB
Raytracing (Single CPU): 5.93 CB


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[funkboy]

Excellent, thanks much Bugs.
Now, let's compare and contrast...
<font face = "courier">333 G3 | iBook 500 | 500 G4
3.33 | 3.82 | 5.35 &lt;--Software shading
2.74 | 4.40 | 6.75 &lt;-- OpenGL shading
4.31 | 5.93 | 6.62 &lt;--Final rendering:
</font>

The iBook is not the peppiest in software shading, probably due to a small backside cache and/or slow bus speed - it barely beats out my G3 which also sports a 66MHz system bus.
The G4 500 does cream both the iBook and 333 in OpenGL, but that's due to the fact that the G4 is outfitted with a Radeon.
However, the iBook 500's render is darn close to the G4, I'm impressed - does anyone know if CineBench 2000 is AltiVec enhanced? If it is, this is darn amazing!

Anyone else read anything into these results? Looks like I'd get quite a boost going from even my beige to a new iBook with the final rendering - plus the fact that I could sit right beside the object I'd like to model


[ 06-17-2001: Message edited by: funkboy ]