[wavegroom]

How is the 3D performance of 3D Apps?
It would be very interesting to know if 3D Apps are useable with the new 15" Powerbook....

(I have an ibook and do the 3D work with a PC gentoo Linux)

The Radeon mobility should be not to bad
I use 3D for interactive installations.

I work with Blender .

There is a benchmark for this program...
download ftp://ftp.cs.umn.edu/ftp00/ftp.blend...blacksmith.tgz

and blender from http://www.blender3d.org/Download/

I use 2.25, because I need the gameEngine

Try to make the window size 900x700 px.
(under linux you can pass this with -p parameter, on os x I made a image with that size a looked that the blender window has the same size)

After loading blacksmith.blend (press F1)
press CTRL+ALT+T and press draw (Wireframe)
press CTRL+ALT+Z to change drawtype into shaded and again CTRL+ALT+T

Lower numbers are better.

on my ibook (600 MHZ G3/ATI RAGE M3) I get
Wireframe: 647
Shaded: 1751

on my linux box (1.4 GHZ athlon xp / Geforce 4200)
Wireframe: 33
Shaded: 59

So my linux box is really fast
I hope the powerbook is around W100/S200 or even better....

It would be cool if anybody can do the benchmark on his new alu....

[brkn]

I'm a Blender user with a 1.25 alu currently on it's way to me. I'll run the blenchmark as soon as I get it

[wavegroom]

great! finally a blender user on macnn!!!
can't wait for your results

[PBG4 User]

Wow, I thought Blender was dead once NaN went belly up. Thanks for proving me wrong wavegroom!

I will try to run the benchmark tonight! That way I can re-acquaint myself with Blender. If I can, I'll try with both 2.25 and 2.28c.

[pknoll]

1Ghz 15", Radeon 9600, 768MB RAM:

Wireframe: 149
Shaded: 190

[wavegroom]

Originally posted by PBG4 User:
Wow, I thought Blender was dead once NaN went belly up. Thanks for proving me wrong wavegroom!

I will try to run the benchmark tonight! That way I can re-acquaint myself with Blender. If I can, I'll try with both 2.25 and 2.28c.

Can't wait for blender 2.3.... the new gui looks much nicer! I hope the game engine will be back again!

Originally posted by pknoll:
1Ghz 15", Radeon 9600, 768MB RAM:

Wireframe: 149
Shaded: 190

nice results.... my guess with W100/S200 was not to bad...
The shaded benchmarks is almost 10x faster than on my ibook... have you ever bought a new computer that is 10x faster the your old one (ok ok, not in every task ). This is so amazing, can't wait for my pb 1.25 GHZ... .
Unfortunately my pb will be delivered in the 3 week of oct, got one of this apple mails.

any PB 1.25 GHZ user can post some results? would be interesting to see how it scales. Any panther benchmarks with blender?

[PBG4 User]

I'm not sure if I'm doing it correctly.

CTRL+ALT+Z changes the view to shaded but doesn't give me numbers. In this mode, when I hit CTRL+ALT+T and pick draw+swap I get 169. This is with Blender 2.28c at almost full screen (probably larger than 900x700).

If you can give more detailed instructions I will follow them and provide results.

This test was done on a stock 15" PB running 10.2.8 (released yesterday).

[wavegroom]

Originally posted by PBG4 User:
I'm not sure if I'm doing it correctly.

CTRL+ALT+Z changes the view to shaded but doesn't give me numbers. In this mode, when I hit CTRL+ALT+T and pick draw+swap I get 169. This is with Blender 2.28c at almost full screen (probably larger than 900x700).

If you can give more detailed instructions I will follow them and provide results.

This test was done on a stock 15" PB running 10.2.8 (released yesterday).

It's important to compare performence, that you, try to make a 900x700 window, I have chosen this size because the most blender benchmark on the web use this size.

You have done all right. CTRL+ALT+Z changes to shaded mode, but don't gives you numbers.
CTRL+ALT+T runs the benchmark. Please provide the wireframe number too. thanks... Which powerbook do you have? 1.25GHZ? 1 GHZ?

to get the 900x700 picture size:
make a 900x700 image with graphic converter for example. Try to make the blender window the same size....