First round of Mac Pro benchmarks from Macworld:
<http://www.macworld.com/2006/08/firstlooks/macprobench/index.php>
The standard configuration of the Mac Pro outperforms its PowerPC-
based G5 predecessors by a wide margin, helping to justify Apple’s
2005 decision to switch to processors from Intel. What’s more, the
system powered by two dual-core 2.66GHz Xeon chips narrowly missed
becoming the first machine to ever record a Speedmark score of over
300.
Still, tallying a Speedmark 4.5 score of 299 in Macworld Lab
testing is nothing to sneeze at—especially in light of the fact
that a few of the tests that make up Speedmark involve applications
that don’t yet run natively on Intel chips. That means the Mac Pro
was able to improve upon the Speedmark score of the Power Mac G5
Quad by 14 percent, even though the collection of tests that
comprises Speedmark includes several which require Apple’s Rosetta
code-translation technology.
[...]
We expect more new Mac Pros to keep arriving in our lab for similar
testing. We plan to continue testing this standard configuration,
installing more memory to see how that affects performance; using
Boot Camp to install and run Windows, we also plan to test the Mac
Pro with PC World’s WorldBench 5. With the impressive results of
this off-the-shelf model, I can’t wait to get my hands on the new
3GHz system and finally blow past the 300-score level on Speedmark.
Cheers,
- Darcy
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