Benchmarking Pentiums, G4s, G5s, and Virtual Machines
Having recently run some tests on a Compaq PC
with a pentium 1.7 GHz x86 chip, running a virtual machine with Windows XP Home
installed, I thought it might be interesting to compare tests with similar tests
run on PPC chips.
G4
iMac: 700 mhz, 384 MB of
RAM
G5 iMac 1600 mhz, 1.25 GB
of RAM
Note: All tests of the G5 iMac
are made with the processor settings set at "automatic" unless otherwise noted.
Note (Feb 6, 2005): Added a few specs
from a G4 Powermac.
iMac
Benchmarks
blue
= G4 iMac 700
MHz
red = G5 iMac
1.6 GHz
green = G4
PowerMac 1.25
GHz
brown = Pentium
1.7
GHz
purple
= Virtual Machine running on Pentium 1.7 GHz (Win XP
Home)
OpenGL
Hardware Lighting
Test:
Scene
1
84.97 sec; 1.2
fps
21.83 sec; 4.7
fps
34.33
sec;
18.21 sec; 5.6
fps
210.46 sec; 0.5
fps
Scene
2
100.52
sec; 0.9
fps
6.16 sec;
14.6
fps
5.45
sec;
7.82 sec; 11.56
fps
90.59 sec; 1.0
fps
OpenGLSoftware Lighting
Test:
Scene
1
58.87 sec;
4.2
fps
24.07 sec;
1.9
fps
27.05
sec;
18.95 sec; 5.4
fps
183.02 sec; 0.5
fps
Scene
2
25.19 sec; 3.6 fps;
243650 polygons/sec
8.31 sec;
10.8 fps; 995547
polygons/sec
13.47
sec;
7.2 sec; 12.5
fps
42.99 sec; 0.5
fps
CINEMA 4D Shading
Test:
Scene
1
136.41 sec; 0.7
fps
53.32 sec; 1.9
fps
73.29
sec;
79.40 sec; 1.3
fps
101.62 sec; 1.0
fps
Scene
2
62.64 sec; 1.4 fps; 97981
polygons/sec
25.00 sec; 3.6
fps; 245502 polygons/sec
34.05
sec;
22.22 sec; 4.1
fps
26.82 sec; 3.4
fps
Single CPU Render
Test:
446.4
sec
130.0
sec
228.7
sec;
167.0
sec
235.0
sec
Photoshop Woodframe
Test:
58
sec
10 sec
(automatic)
9 sec
(highest)
Lame Decode
Test:
234
sec
123 sec
(automatic)
114 sec
(highest)
iTunes ACC
encode Test:
161
sec
38 sec
(automatic)
32 sec
(highest)
DropStuff
Test:
321
sec
167
sec
XCode compiling
EnhancedDataBurn
Test:
61
sec
34
sec
XCode compiling
FinkCommander
Test:
126
sec
71 sec
(automatic)
68 sec
(highest)
mkisofs
Test:
225
sec
145 sec
(automatic)
109 sec
(highest)
Misc.
Photoshop
Test:
322
sec
95 sec
Posted: Tue - February 14, 2006 at 02:58 PM