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Running a video card benchmark on your Mac.

redsteven

redsteven

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I don't know how many of you have heard of it, but you should download and try out open mark (http://www.giofx.net/GioFX/OpenMark.html). It runs a benchmark on your video card, and it can be slightly amusing to watch. It make a lot of revolving spheres in the application window. As the benchmark progresses, it makes more polygons (triangles in this case). It's actually really fascinating that a graphics card has the power to create over 7 million triangles at one time (it's interesting...).

We could post our results here... THEORETICALLY, we should only have a few different sets of results... as mac users, our choice of video cards is very limited. So, lets test it out. Post your results and video card in this thread.

NOTE: Run the benchmark. It's in the menu.
 
Benchmark

1,843,200 Triangles at 60fps
4,010,112 Trangles at 30fps
126,214,272 Traignles at 1fps (gfx card crying at this point)

this is on an iMac with NVIDIA GeForce7600 GT Open GL Engine
2.0 NVIDIA-1.4.56
 
Go to the Openmark menu (the only menu there is) and select Run Benchmark.
This is what my iMac gives me (256 meg VRAM x1600, first generation 20" core duo)

OpenMark started...
workdfolder: /Users/steven/Desktop/GioFX OpenMark/
resources: /Users/steven/Desktop/GioFX OpenMark/OpenMark.app/Contents/Resources/
hardware detected:
cpu family: 0x69353836
cpu type: 0x69353836
opengl vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
opengl renderer: ATI Radeon X1600 OpenGL Engine
opengl version: 1.5 ATI-1.4.32
test parms:
surface 1680x1050 32bpp
textures: on
lighting: on
keep in sync: off
test started
FPS 784.0 0 triangles
FPS 695.0 1152 triangles
FPS 664.0 4608 triangles
FPS 630.0 10368 triangles
FPS 594.0 18432 triangles
FPS 558.0 28800 triangles
FPS 517.0 41472 triangles
FPS 480.0 56448 triangles
FPS 441.0 73728 triangles
FPS 408.0 93312 triangles
FPS 373.0 115200 triangles
FPS 343.0 139392 triangles
FPS 316.0 165888 triangles
FPS 291.0 194688 triangles
FPS 271.0 225792 triangles
FPS 248.0 259200 triangles
FPS 229.0 294912 triangles
FPS 214.0 332928 triangles
FPS 198.0 373248 triangles
FPS 182.0 415872 triangles
FPS 168.0 460800 triangles
FPS 156.0 508032 triangles
FPS 144.0 557568 triangles
FPS 135.0 609408 triangles
FPS 125.0 663552 triangles
FPS 117.0 720000 triangles
FPS 110.0 778752 triangles
FPS 102.0 839808 triangles
FPS 96.0 903168 triangles
FPS 90.0 968832 triangles
FPS 85.0 1036800 triangles
FPS 80.0 1107072 triangles
FPS 76.0 1179648 triangles
FPS 72.0 1254528 triangles
FPS 68.0 1331712 triangles
FPS 64.0 1411200 triangles
FPS 61.0 1492992 triangles
FPS 58.0 1577088 triangles
FPS 56.0 1663488 triangles
FPS 53.0 1752192 triangles
FPS 51.0 1843200 triangles
FPS 48.0 1936512 triangles
FPS 46.0 2032128 triangles
FPS 44.0 2130048 triangles
FPS 42.0 2230272 triangles
FPS 41.0 2332800 triangles
FPS 39.0 2437632 triangles
FPS 37.0 2544768 triangles
FPS 36.0 2654208 triangles
FPS 34.0 2765952 triangles
FPS 33.0 2880000 triangles
FPS 32.0 2996352 triangles
FPS 31.0 3115008 triangles
FPS 30.0 3235968 triangles
FPS 29.0 3359232 triangles
FPS 28.0 3484800 triangles
FPS 27.0 3612672 triangles
FPS 26.0 3742848 triangles
FPS 25.0 3875328 triangles
FPS 24.0 4010112 triangles
FPS 24.0 4147200 triangles
FPS 23.0 4286592 triangles
FPS 22.0 4428288 triangles
FPS 21.0 4572288 triangles
FPS 21.0 4718592 triangles
FPS 20.0 4867200 triangles
FPS 20.0 5018112 triangles
FPS 19.0 5171328 triangles
FPS 19.0 5326848 triangles
FPS 18.0 5484672 triangles
FPS 18.0 5644800 triangles
FPS 17.0 5807232 triangles
FPS 17.0 5971968 triangles
FPS 16.0 6139008 triangles
FPS 16.0 6308352 triangles
FPS 15.0 6480000 triangles
FPS 15.0 6653952 triangles
FPS 15.0 6830208 triangles
FPS 14.0 7008768 triangles
FPS 14.0 7189632 triangles
FPS 14.0 7372800 triangles
FPS 13.0 7558272 triangles
FPS 13.0 7746048 triangles
FPS 13.0 7936128 triangles
FPS 12.0 8128512 triangles
FPS 12.0 8323200 triangles
FPS 12.0 8520192 triangles
FPS 12.0 8719488 triangles
FPS 11.0 8921088 triangles
FPS 11.0 9124992 triangles
FPS 11.0 9331200 triangles
FPS 11.0 9539712 triangles
FPS 11.0 9750528 triangles
FPS 10.0 9963648 triangles
FPS 10.0 10179072 triangles
FPS 10.0 10396800 triangles
FPS 10.0 10616832 triangles
FPS 9.0 10839168 triangles
final score: 11063
test stopped
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11063 for me. Highest score wins :)
 
lol I am running a G5 imac with a ATI Radeon 9600 with 128mb Vram and I got 4147 :( a bit slow but the computer is getting a bit old but not bad or gaming if your not wanting full graphics settings

P.S getting my new Imac shortly (07 Al 2.8 Ghz 24") that should get a better score
 
Powerbook G4 - 1.67Ghz - 128Mb 9700m - 1280x854

Scored: 4718



Interestingly, the software picked up my graphics chipset as a 9600XT



It's also worth noting i have, safari, firefox, itunes, vlc, transmission and quicktime running, also it's been running for 97 days now. So on a fresh boot it may be slightly higher

I need to hook it up to my 20in screen and see what it scores driving the extra pixels...
 
13436

My score is 13436.

(And that's with a bunch of apps running, including Folding At Home.)
 

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I've used OpenMark before. Its a great tool to use when over clocking video cards since it will start to show artifacts if push the card too far.

Another video card benchmark tool I like is Cinebench. Its cross platform and can give you an idea of how your system compares to others.
 
My 12" iBook G4 got a 2654.

The Radeon 9550 isn't too bad for a laptop, and it would actually still be relatively decent (again, for a laptop) if it had come with more than 32 MB VRAM. The 128MB Radeon 9700 in beigematchbox's PBG4 scored almost double my iBook's 32MB 9550, and they both use a M9600 chipset (although the 9550 only has a 64-bit bus width).
 
flopticalcube said:
And my MacBook is bringing up the rear...
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Ouch, 903. With the iBooks getting 2500+, that... that's bad, man. I didn't realize the integrated graphics cards were THAT much worse than my old ibook g4 (which i don't have anymore, otherwise i'd test it).

I feel for you.
 
risc said:
1680x1050 is not an option here, it goes 1920x1200 ... 1344 x 840.

... sorry
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I was really just wanting to see what your increase was if you dropped the resolution a bit, could you try the next available resolution down from 1920x1200 please.
 
redsteven said:
Ouch, 903. With the iBooks getting 2500+, that... that's bad, man. I didn't realize the integrated graphics cards were THAT much worse than my old ibook g4 (which i don't have anymore, otherwise i'd test it).

I feel for you.
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Its not all bad. I can pay my bills and watch youtube just as fast as a Mac Pro. I can also sit on the deck outside and reply to MacRumors threads. ;)

At any rate, I am ordering 2 20"/2.4 iMacs as soon as Leopard is announced. :D
 
16040

Also resolution does not seem to affect my video card, 1680x1050 and 19200x1200 produce same result

PMG5 Dual 2.3
X1900GT (personal cooling mod, Zalman VF900 and thermaltake cl-c0025 sinks with silver adhesive and silver paste, yeah it's a monster)
 
Just ran some tests on my G3/600 w/Radeon 7000 that I've mega OC'd, um, changing the GPU and Memory on it had NO EFFECT on the results (I changed them, alot). See notes with Aticellerator II, turns out 3dmark, processor dependent, does not test my GPU, use Chimera for that. Explains why my benchmarks are really close to the guy with 6800, we both have G5s, fascinating to note that G5s are really close to the firepower of the new Intels though, I always wondered that. Intels still run cooler though and draw less power for same performance that being said. Just means I won't be upgrading this tower to a new Intel anytime soon.
 
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