Mac Pro GeekBench-Whats your score?

[apphotography]

All the Mac Pros from a like generation are going to score close the same with the sam processors not much you can do. The whole thing was that for a cross platform benchmark it does't do ass well in Windows/Linux as it does in OS X. My computer didn't magically get faster after I installed OS X.

Thanks I will give it a try on Win 8.1.

 

[AlecZ]

All the Mac Pros from a like generation are going to score close the same with the sam processors not much you can do. The whole thing was that for a cross platform benchmark it does't do as well in Windows/Linux as it does in OS X. My computer didn't magically get faster after I installed OS X.

Are you sure there isn't some driver problem with that Linux OS you're running on the Mac Pro or some kind of hardware-specific optimization (I'm thinking RAM) it lacks?

 

[lowendlinux]

Are you sure there isn't some driver problem with that Linux OS you're running on the Mac Pro or some kind of hardware-specific optimization (I'm thinking RAM) it lacks?

It's the same computer and not a Mac Pro. I did nothing other than install OSX.

 

[Tutor]

Snow Leopard was the best of the best. Too bad it's now just historical trivia,

since many of my now current, crucial applications won't run on it.

All the Mac Pros from a like generation are going to score close the same with the sam processors not much you can do. The whole thing was that for a cross platform benchmark it does't do as well in Windows/Linux as it does in OS X. My computer didn't magically get faster after I installed OS X.

I've had a contrary experience to yours. My Macs and hacks did [magically?] get faster after I installed Snow Leopard. It was the leanest, meanest OS ever developed compared to all other Mac OSes, and all versions of Linux and Windows that I've run. Snow Leopard brought out the best performance I've ever experienced under any OS when it came to applications and utilities that then did run on multiple, concurrent OSes, and not just for Geekbench. Snow Leopard excelled at them all because of how it handled, most effectively than all other OSes, the turbo boost potential of Intel processors.

 

[lowendlinux]

since many of my now current, crucial applications won't run on it.



I've had a contrary experience to yours. My Macs and hacks did [magically?] get faster after I installed Snow Leopard. It was the leanest, meanest OS ever developed compared to all other Mac OSes, and all versions of Linux and Windows that I've run. Snow Leopard brought out the best performance I've ever experienced under any OS when it came to applications and utilities that then did run on multiple, concurrent OSes, and not just for Geekbench. Snow Leopard excelled at them all because of how it handled, most effectively than all other OSes, the turbo boost potential of Intel processors.

My Arch build had only one unnecessary daemon running and would idle at ~360Mb of RAM. The desktop and applications all load and run faster to include Ps which was running inside of wine. I really can't think of any reason OSX is faster in GB than Linux. Blender, heaven, and luxmark are all within a margin of error. The best part is GB in Linux is a command line tool so it really should be better. Curious

 

[Tutor]

My Arch build had only one unnecessary daemon running and would idle at ~360Mb of RAM. The desktop and applications all load and run faster to include Ps which was running inside of wine. I really can't think of any reason OSX is faster in GB than Linux. Blender, heaven, and luxmark are all within a margin of error. The best part is GB in Linux is a command line tool so it really should be better. Curious

My experience is that currently Geekbench running on Linux's command line tool yields the best performance of all other OSes. I now favor the Mint version. Also, it's not just a Geekbench phenomenon because my other multi-OS applications run faster and smoother on Linux Mint than on OSX or Windows. Unfortunately, that list of applications is rather short by comparison.

For the most part, Linux distributions are leaner than OSX and Windows now are. MacOS was in the lean category with Snow Leopard. That was, however, short lived. I'll probably be using all three OSes until my time in this shell ends. All three of the major OSes have their strong points.

 

[DJenkins]

I found there was a big jump in OSX scores between Geekbench versions 2 and 3, when comparing to Windows. Not sure if they artificially re-biased the scores or if the app was genuinely written to run more effectively.

All I know is people used to get upset about their OSX score being a few thousand points lower on the same machine running Windows. All of a sudden people were breaking through the 30,000 mark and celebrating like their machine had actually taken on a huge increase in speed!

 

[RoastingPig]

Stock 2012 2.4 12 core with all ram dimms filled "slower" 8x4gb

 

[lexR]

4.1>5.1 upgraded 3.46GHz 12 core with 48GB Ram

 

[cpnotebook80]

4.1>5.1 upgraded 3.46GHz 12 core with 48GB Ram

Same as above poster but with 16gb ram. I am at work so can't double check.
score is 25k last time i ran geek bench.