05/05, 9:00pm
Around 70 percent faster than Core2Duo models
The first benchmarking tests are in on the new 2011 iMacs, and early results show a fairly consistent 25 percent improvement across the board over the previous models, and a 70 percent average improvement over the last of the Core2Duo iMac models, Primate Labs reports. It should be noted that the company used its own Geekbench 2 to obtain their results, which does not measure video card or storage improvements, being limited to just processor and RAM performance.
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01/05, 10:05pm
Parallels particularly strong in graphics and 3D
Parallels Desktop v6 was found faster than VMWare's Fusion v3.1 in 84 percent of more than 4,000 general benchmark tests conducted by MacTech Magazine, the publication announced, owing mainly to much more robust and faster graphics and 3D, an area where -- tested separately -- Parallels was found to be faster 92 percent of the time over its rival.
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03/04, 11:00pm
27-inch iMac core i7 bypasses some Mac Pros
Primate Labs has updated its Mac Benchmark chart, adding recent Macs to the list. The chart is a compilation of Mac-based performance scores generated from user-submitted Geekbench results. The comparison uses results from standard Macs instead of modified or overclocked systems. Numerically it uses a 1000-point baseline set to a Power Mac G5/1.6GHz machine.
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08/29, 5:10pm
Benchmarks - Snow Leopards
Apple's latest release, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, has been benchmarked with positive results by normally Linux-focused Phoronix.com. The test suites cover over 100 profiles (only 60 were used in this round due to Snow Leopard incompatibilities) that can be applied to both Linux and Mac OS X, ranging from games to video playback and encryption tests. The tests cover two Mac setups, an older 1.83GHz 32-bit EFI Mac Mini with an Intel graphics processor and a newer 2.0GHz 64-bit EFI Mac Mini that supports OpenCL through its GeFORCE 9400M graphics processor. Mac OS X 10.5.8 and Mac OS X 10.6.0 were compared in the test.
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