On Mar 3, 2011, at 2:58 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote:
Kris, I am admitting ignorance here. I don't know how to interpret the bench marks and what they mean.
They're just a scale for comparison. Sometimes the scale isn't very good, but until there's a better scale, it's what we have.
In the case of Xbench, you can go to the iMac Flat Panel page and then sort the results by processor speed to get all the 800 MHz together, and they should be sorted by score. The scores with asterisks you can ignore because they're partial tests, so find a high score and look at the OS version. In this case, you'll see that ALL of the highest scores are running Tiger 10.4 and the scores are around 26 or so, the highest being 27. Then go back down the list until you come to the highest scoring Leopard 10.5. I see a lot in the teens, with the highest being around 20, so it's closer to a 20% hit for Leopard, which is about right. Leopard and Panther are about the same speed on you 800 MHz iMac, Tiger is about 25% faster according to Xbench scores.
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