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DaVinci and Diablo on 2013 Mac Pro vs others

Thanks, great info!

Deciding between 4 core D300 vs 6 core D500 with additional memory and maxed out SSD.

Wondering if you've drawn any conclusions on the relative benefit from the upgrade to 6 core/D500, my main use case is photography (Aperture), light video FCPX and gaming, not hardcore, but I do like to game in Bootcamp and OSX.

I see you published some previous tests with the 6 core/D500 but with different test cases. I realize you didn't test with Bootcamp yet, and look forward to how crossfire with those D300's impacts the results, I'm optimistic at the end of the day I'll probably only need the D300's but hope to see some relevant metrics before pulling the trigger.
 
iBug2 said:
One question.

In http://www.barefeats.com/haswel3.html you have Mac Pro with GTX 680 having 89 Fps on Warcraft.

In the new test http://barefeats.com/tube06.html, the same config has 83 fps?

Is it due to different OS I wonder?
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I believe the 89FPS was under Mt. Lion. The 83FPS was definitely under Mavericks. I ran the test again. It's even slower today (79FPS).

Things ran faster under Mt. Lion due to the release by NVIDIA of an improved driver direct from their website. Maybe the same will happen with Mavericks.
 
I know you guys are Mac specific site, but if you're installing Windows to run some benchmark for games or etc. Could you run a Specviewperf 11 and 12 test as well? We (people who hang around in the forums), managed to get a benchmark result for the D500, but yet to get any from D300 and D700.

Oh and the reason why I would prefer to get a Specviewperf 11 and 12 results is because 12 is newer and supposedly better test on AMD FirePros GPU, but then there's not many data available online to compare it with, 11 on the other hand has been around for quite awhile and there's MANY workstation GPU tests conducted with 11. Tomshardware has a huge collection of specviewperf11 results with various workstation GPU and some gaming GPU.

Thanks!

More info on SPECviewperf® 12

SPECviewperf® 11 Download Link
 
barefeats said:
I believe the 89FPS was under Mt. Lion. The 83FPS was definitely under Mavericks. I ran the test again. It's even slower today (79FPS).

Things ran faster under Mt. Lion due to the release by NVIDIA of an improved driver direct from their website. Maybe the same will happen with Mavericks.
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WoW is a very creaky graphics engine, so we're likely to see some variance there. World lag is probably a factor too (unless you are testing on a private server).

Still very nice to see the WoW tests! :D
 
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