[tkmd]

I've seen the recent benchmarks on Ars (http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardw...cbookpro.ars/6 ) and yet the ones that I would be most interested in are not done. Cinbench and xbench are nice but they dont mean much to me.

Whats the speed of the FW 400? Remember that fw400 was always much slower on a PC and USB2 was much slower on the mac. Does this still hold true for the MBP or has it been reversed?

Doom3 is now a universal binary program what are the numbers people are getting with their MBP's?


Thanks

[mduell]

Barefeats did:
February 6th, 2006 -- USB 2.0 is FASTER on the Core Duo iMac than on the Quad-Core G5 Power Mac!
One of our readers was pondering whether the speed of USB 2.0 might be improved on an Intel based Mac. So we ran some QuickBench tests using a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 and Wiebetech SuperDriveDock+ (USB2 + FW800). Here's what we observed:
Quad-Core built-in USB2 = 11MB/s READ, 11MB/s WRITE
Quad-Core with Aaxeon USB2 card = 15MB/s READ, 11MB/s WRITE
Core Duo iMac 2.0 built-in USB2 = 18MB/s READ, 14MB/s WRITE

Of course, those speeds pale in comparison to the numbers we see with FireWire:
Core Duo iMac 2.0 built-in FW400 = 39MB/s READ, 28MB/s WRITE
Quad-Core built-in FW400 = 38MB/s READ, 32MB/s WRITE
Quad-Core built-in FW800 = 58MB/s READ, 50MB/s WRITE

[zac4mac]

I was playing Doom 3 on my new MBP 2.0 yesterday.
MBP: 2.0 GHz/1GB DDR2/256MB X1600/ 100GB 7200rpmHDD

Set Doom to Ultra, res to 1100 x 800 something, turned on shadows and 16x antialiasing.
40-60fps, every once in a while a hiccup down to 20fps.

Not sure, but I think it's a tad faster than my G5DP2.0 w/ 256MB X800XT OC'd 10%

Z

[tkmd]

Nice- now thats what I'm talking about. I wish I could afford a MBP....

[JKT]

Originally Posted by zac4mac

I was playing Doom 3 on my new MBP 2.0 yesterday.
MBP: 2.0 GHz/1GB DDR2/256MB X1600/ 100GB 7200rpmHDD

Set Doom to Ultra, res to 1100 x 800 something, turned on shadows and 16x antialiasing.
40-60fps, every once in a while a hiccup down to 20fps.

Not sure, but I think it's a tad faster than my G5DP2.0 w/ 256MB X800XT OC'd 10%

Z

On my PB, Doom 3 occasionally hiccups up to 20fps at similar settings so I think it is safe to say that this is a massive improvement over the old architecture.

[tkmd]

Here's another test result from Bare Feats showing another FW vs USB2 test :

Here's the USB 2.0 results for QuickBench extended 10MB test:
MacBook Pro 2.0 = 20MB/s READ, 19MB/s WRITE
AlumBook G4/1.67 = 15MB/s READ, 14MB/s WRITE
Quad-Core G5/2.5 = 11MB/s READ, 11MB/s WRITE

When we connected the same drive to the fastest available FireWire Port, this is what we got:
MacBook Pro 2.0 (FW400) = 39MB/s READ, 19MB/s WRITE **
AlumBook G4/1.67 (FW800) = 49MB/s READ, 34MB/s WRITE
Quad-Core G5/2.5 (FW800) = 50MB/s READ, 35MB/s WRITE
(P.S. FireWire provided enough bus power such that an A/C adapter wasn't needed. The USB 2.0 port on all three required an A/C adapter.)

** When we first tested the Seagate and Hitachi notebook drives on the FW400 port, we were getting between 31 and 33MB/s WRITE speed. After testing them in USB 2.0 mode, they all dropped to 19 to 21MB/s. We're trying to figure out what's going on and/or how to reset the ports on an Intel based Mac.)