Consolidated Dual Core iMac benchmark thread

[plinden]

I decided to start this thread to consolidate all the benchmarks that we know about. People can add their own, if they want. I'll start with links to the websites we know have done benchmarks and edit as more show up:

MacSpeedZone
MacWorld
Barefeats

And threads dedicated to personal benchmarks:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/176080/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/176161/

 

[Peace]

Real World Benchmarks

D'OH! I just noticed the title of this topic!!
I work a lot a just had my first cup of java..

Here's a couple benchmarks.Keep in mind my way of benchmarking is tuned more toward the average user experience..

Intel iMac Dual-Core 1.83 w/2gigs ram X1600 video w/128megs..HEY! it was free from the ADC vs my rev.B Dual 2.3 G5 Powermac w/4 gigs ram Radeon 9650 video card.

I copied a 3.03 gig zip of .WAV files.180 minutes,14 songs ,from a DVD to the desktop..

Approx 8-10 minutes for each machine.

Unzip the file..
Approx 5 minutes for the G5 and 4 minutes for the iMac.

I set iTunes to encode AAC 128kbps as the default.

Drag and Drop the songs to iTunes library

Approx 3 minutes for each machine.
Convert to AAC 128kbps.
Approx 3 minutes @ 30X for the Dual G5
Approx 5 minutes @20.5X for the Intel iMac.

Thats one..

iMovie :
Connected a Canon optura 60 and recorded 2 minutes worth of wide-screen native .dv

Export to .dv :
G5 took about 3 minutes as did the Intel iMac
here's the interesting part
Export to iPod
G5 took about 5 minutes
Intel iMac took about 3 1/2..

More later since I'm moving various systems around the house..

 

[Peace]

Toast 7.0.2 Benchmarks

Here's a benchmark using Toast 7.0.2.Intel iMac was using Rosetta
2.7gig DVD
DVD copy :
Save as disk image
rev B. Dual 2.3 G5 w/4gigs ram : 3m30s
Intel iMac 1.83 w/2 gigs ram :13m40s

Burn disk image to DVD :
rev B. Dual 2.3 G5 w/4gigs ram :7m40s,cpu %-approx 16%,memory-45megs VM-342megs
Intel iMac dual 1.83 w/2gigs ram : 20m12s,cpu %-approx 23%,memory-66megs VM-468megs

Interesting thing about the iMac.Apple states it will burn DVD-R up to 8X
Using Toast under Rosetta only allowed me to burn at 2X.