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PC Mag benchmarks don't jive with Barefeats (24 inch iMac)
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I hope you looked at the links. If you did you would see both list the 7600.
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Oh... then I'd guess one is using the universal version and the other is using the powerpc version.
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I wondered the same thing--but BareFeats has their testing method down pretty solid for games, and they have multiple people doing the tests, and a lot of DIFFERENT tests--different games, different res... and all of BareFeats tests seem to agree with each other. So do informal tests I have seen.
Therefore I think PC Mag screwed up, which is a shame because it will make a lot of people think the iMac is much slower than reality.
And the nature of the screw-up may be that they installed the game and never patched it--so it's running in Rosetta at a huge penalty.
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Originally Posted by nagromme
I wondered the same thing--but BareFeats has their testing method down pretty solid for games, and they have multiple people doing the tests, and a lot of DIFFERENT tests--different games, different res... and all of BareFeats tests seem to agree with each other. So do informal tests I have seen.
Therefore I think PC Mag screwed up, which is a shame because it will make a lot of people think the iMac is much slower than reality.
And the nature of the screw-up may be that they installed the game and never patched it--so it's running in Rosetta at a huge penalty.
That would be my thought too. Given the graphics cards in question, there's no reason the difference should be anything like that huge...
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PCMag is legally "on the take" and apparantly not so saavy with Apple technologies.
Barefeats does solid benchmarking to the point Steve & Co temporarily banned one of the guys from benchmarking at the local Apple store for dispelling Steve's wild marketing performance boasts.
Whom would you believe?
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Hmm, thanks for the posts. This is what I assumed was going on too.
-Owl
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