Anyone received their Intel iMac?

[After G]

Seems like xbench is unreliable.
The CPU test can't be that much slower.
Basically that score for CPU is my iBook 1.2's score.

 

[danny_w]

Interesting results from Xbench. These are the results of my Rev B iMac G5:

Results 60.65
System Info
Xbench Version 1.2
System Version 10.4.3 (8F46)
Physical RAM 512 MB
Model PowerMac8,2
Processor PowerPC G5 @ 1.80 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 512K @ 1.80 GHz
Bus Frequency 600 MHz
Video Card ATY,RV351
Drive Type ST3160023AS
CPU Test 82.60
GCD Loop 66.14 3.49 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 90.31 2.15 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 95.56 3.15 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 84.96 14.79 Mops/sec
Thread Test 49.76
Computation 46.01 932.17 Kops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 54.16 2.33 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 62.56
System 63.85
Allocate 107.14 393.47 Kalloc/sec
Fill 62.87 3056.71 MB/sec
Copy 45.99 949.84 MB/sec
Stream 61.32
Copy 60.36 1246.69 MB/sec [G5]
Scale 61.61 1272.82 MB/sec [G5]
Add 61.77 1315.93 MB/sec [G5]
Triad 61.57 1317.09 MB/sec [G5]
Quartz Graphics Test 76.65
Line 81.54 5.43 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 80.05 23.90 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 80.27 6.54 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 81.75 2.06 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 63.35 3.96 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 99.53
Spinning Squares 99.53 126.26 frames/sec
User Interface Test 42.26
Elements 42.26 193.95 refresh/sec
Disk Test 48.84
Sequential 94.10
Uncached Write 98.36 60.39 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 95.88 54.25 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 79.47 23.26 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 107.19 53.87 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 32.98
Uncached Write 11.18 1.18 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 72.77 23.30 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 94.16 0.67 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 134.11 24.88 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

[law guy]

Seems like xbench is unreliable.
The CPU test can't be that much slower.
Basically that score for CPU is my iBook 1.2's score.

I'll say. On the end of the last page of this thread I post my dual G4 PM score of 160. I would expect the G5 and the intel iMacs to both be a faster. I just checked again - longer bars, higher numbers - are better... hmmm. Alocate with a score of 933 But this just doesn't make sense to me - if my G4 is at 160, it seems like it will be awhile until the intel duos catch up with the G4, but that can't be right...

 

[MRU]

Interesting. Just ran quick test on xbench.

Mac Min 1.42 - 512mb = 42 Overall
Powermac Dual G5 1.8 = 93.4 Overall

I'm hoping the Duo 1.83 + 2gb Ram will match my powermac for speed once apps are universal.. Fingers crossed

 

[BakedBeans]

i will tell you now that the xbench score for that is RUBBISH lol, xbench is so poor - 58 my ass

 

[Superhob]

Well this all lost me after Physical RAM, but WOW was the Graphics tests a rush...

Results 58.39

Bubbasteve, check your setting under the system preferences for energy saver (looks like a light bulb). Under the options tab, If processor performance is set to automatic, change it to highest performance and rerun the xbench. Thank you.

 

[majorp]

would xbench be running through rosetta?

 

[MRU]

would xbench be running through rosetta?

No. 1.2 is universal

 

[Bubbasteve]

Bubbasteve, check your setting under the system preferences for energy saver (looks like a light bulb). Under the options tab, If processor performance is set to automatic, change it to highest performance and rerun the xbench. Thank you.

Found the energy saver, found the options tab but I can't find the processor performance

 

[mdavey]

Feel free to ask questions and i'll try to answer them

What is the startup sound? Any chance you could record it somehow (obviously using something other than the Intel iMac) and share with us?

 

[Bubbasteve]

What is the startup sound? Any chance you could record it somehow (obviously using something other than the Intel iMac) and share with us?

no need to record it, it's the same chime

 

[Superhob]

Found the energy saver, found the options tab but I can't find the processor performance

Wow, it looks like they took away that option . Thanks for trying...

Do you have office installed? If you do, can you comment on the overall speed of office applications. Does office start up quickly enough?

 

[Bubbasteve]

Wow, it looks like they took away that option . Thanks for trying...

Do you have office installed? If you do, can you comment on the overall speed of office applications. Does office start up quickly enough?

Roughly 2 seconds to get to the Project Gallery after initial click

 

[Steve1496]

I just got my intel iMac (2 ghz dual core duo).

Any chance you can see if Windows XP will install? I'm really curious if Apple left support for legacy bios.

 

[majorp]

do you think you could run xBench again, sometimes it doesn't always work properly.

 

[Kelson]

XBench Comparison

Alright, so I went through and pulled out some of the relevent data points form the XBench.

Some of the stats, like vecLib FFT just don't apply, because the Yonah doesn't have Altivec. I'm thinking some of the tests, like the UI test are Altivec accelerated on the PPC, accounting for the low x86 score.

The PPC seems to be better on FP, while the x86 screams on Integer.

-Kelson

PPC 1.8Ghz vs Yonah 2.0Ghz Dual Core

GCD Loop:
x86 - 259.78 (13.69Mops/sec)
PPC - 66.14 (3.49Mops/sec)

Floating Point Basic
x86 - 90.92 (2.16Gflop/sec)
PPC - 90.31 (2.15Gflop/sec)

Floating Point Library
x86 - 67.95 (11.83Mops/sec)
PPC - 84.96 (14.79Mops/sec)

Thread Test
x86 - 199.31
PPC - 49.76

Memory Test
x86 - 96.93
PPC - 62.56

Quartz Graphics Test
x86 - 72.30
PPC - 76.65

OpenGL Graphics Test
x86 - 141.32
PPC - 99.53

User Interface Test
x86 - 18.31
PPC - 42.26

Disk Test
x86 - 62.20
PPC - 48.84

 

[MRU]

Look like a photoshop result is in

From the Apple Mac Hardware : Photoshop Test thread..

Would anyone care to see the results with a Core Duo 1.83 17" iMac
with 2 GB RAM––running PPC Photoshop CS2 under Rosetta?

(yes, I think you would)

1:05...

Not bad, considering my 2 Ghz Rev B iMac took 1:50 running CS2 natively.

Looking very promising. 6 minutes to open PS, sweet BS indeed...

 

[Kelson]

I'll say. On the end of the last page of this thread I post my dual G4 PM score of 160. I would expect the G5 and the intel iMacs to both be a faster. I just checked again - longer bars, higher numbers - are better... hmmm. Alocate with a score of 933 But this just doesn't make sense to me - if my G4 is at 160, it seems like it will be awhile until the intel duos catch up with the G4, but that can't be right...

You can't compare different versions of XBench scores, you have to use the same version. This is because the author reset the baseline in different versions. I doubt your G4 anything will score 160 in XBench 1.2.

- Kelson

 

[anjam]

Is the imac fairly loud whilst running or could get to sleep with it close by still running?

 

[BakedBeans]

yeah good question - is the fan any quieter

 

[Bubbasteve]

Any chance you can see if Windows XP will install? I'm really curious if Apple left support for legacy bios.

I don't own the Windows OS

 

[nospleen]

Does anyone have a link to that photoshop test where it applies a blur to that horse pic? I would be anxious to see the difference using rosetta. (assuming you have photoshop) Does anyone know any tests that he can run that will show the speed difference? Preferably something in ilife because it is universal.

 

[Bubbasteve]

yeah good question - is the fan any quieter

Last night when I was setting the bad boy up it seemed pretty noisy... but after I put I turned it on in the morning it "pulls like butter" (or so says Steve Jobs)

One thing that I have found pretty annoying is that I cant download wallpapers from interfacelift.com (i.e. the Core Duo wallpaper)... I try to load it as my wallpaper but it doesn't appear, rather a big blue blackground appears as the wallpaper instead (my version of the blue screen of death)

 

[MartinAyla]

Thanks for the tests so far Bubbasteve!

Could you try a 1080p trailer from http://www.apple.com/trailers?

And if you install the free WMV Quicktime codec from http://www.flip4mac.com (although it's not Universal Binary yet, soon is), could you try a 1080p WMV from http://www.wmvhd.com?

Would be nice to know if they run without dropping frames.

Thanks again

 

[Bubbasteve]

Is the imac fairly loud whilst running or could get to sleep with it close by still running?

Yeah I don't think it would be a problem to sleep with it still running