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- Your Mac's Specs
- MacBook Pro 13" 2.5 Ghz i5 with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD.
I received a 3390. I think that's pretty decent, right?
I wouldn't need to a score test to know how my Mac Mini PPC G4 stacks up to your Macs It's pretty ancient, runs decent and it gets it's physical usage! I do abuse it (with having loads of apps running at one time, Photoshop, Lightroom, Office 08 and Itunes) It does chug but by today's standards it's a dope compared to what you guys have. But I love it. Until it breaks down from excessive usages - I won't upgrade just yet.
I'm just curious as to why to use geekbench vs novabench which also includes GPU benchmarking...?
I'm just curious as to why to use geekbench vs novabench which also includes GPU benchmarking...?
Last weekend, I picked up a new MacBook Pro (13", i5) and decided to compare this to my old 08 MB (C2D). I ran three different tests - Geekbench, Novabench and a test I wrote myself (I couldn't get Cinebench to work on the old 08 MB and I didn't feel like trying again).
Thanks. It doesn't test much beyond CPU speed and file I/O but it does help to show how much faster the new machine is. Surprisingly, both machines did the counting and file creation at relatively the same speed but the new machine was magnitudes faster at removing the files.Pretty neat that you designed your own test...regardless of it's simplicity!
Yeah, it was 11.5. It kept failing on the OpenGL tests.Regarding Cinebench. Was it version 11.5? If so...were you unable to run both the cpu & OpenGL (graphics) tests.
Months of saving + student discount + living frugally.p.s. Congrats on the new computer!!! Where did the "starving student" find the $$$$??