For the third installment in the critically acclaimed series....
Post your Cinebench 11.5 results here!
Thanks for starting this thread!
I was going to...but I ended up going out to dinner...and also went to my local Apple Store to get a partially malfunctioning Apple aluminum keyboard looked at...which they replaced with a new one...yeahhh APPLE!!!
Computer Specs:
- "Early 2009" Mac Pro
- 2 x 2.26ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
- 6 gig ram
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 video card
My "OpenGL" score really is poor!
The stock NVIDIA GT 120 really is a "stinker" video card to be in a Mac Pro computer. Definitely an upgrade I will look forward to completing (when I can "scratch" the cash together)!.
Some "FYI's" for Cinebench 11.5:
1. It appears that in the Cinebench 11.5 download folder, there's a 32-bit & a 64-bit ".exe file". I'm assuming that for non-64 bit computer models the 32-bit version will run automatically. For the life of me I can't find (or if it's even an available option)...a way to switch between the 32-bit & 64-bit (if you wanted to test both). Maybe the faster/appropriate version automatically loads when the app. is launched.
2. Under the "File" menu (within the Cinebench window, not the normal Mac OS drop down menu location) is an option for "Advanced Benchmark"...which gives you a little more info...such as:
- % Match against the reference system for your computer model.
- Single core score
- MP Ratio (the speed-up factor due to multi-processors)
3. Here's the "unoffical" Cinebench scores database:
Maxon Cinebench 11.5 Score Results
The chart is really not very "scannable" by Macintosh computer model (the list includes a lot of computers running Windows 7)...which makes this Cinebench benchmarking thread that much more useful & easy...for us to compare Macintosh models & results & different video card setups.
4. For folks thinking of running Cinebench 11.5 on older model Mac's (PowerPC G4 & G5 computers)...Cinebench 11.5 does not support these processors. You need to have:
- an Intel cpu
- at least 1 gig of ram
- minimum OS 10.5.8.
MAXON: System Requirements
I think that Cinebench version 10 could be run on older PowerPC Mac's...but I didn't think that version 10 & version 11.5 scores are comparable.
I would suggest folks include their computer specs...since the Cinebench 11.5 results output doesn't include this info (will make it easier for folks to compare computer models or create a summary chart of scores).
I would also add that...on slower computers the Cinebench 11.5 test
WILL be PAINFULLY slow.
But this does demonstrate the power & complexity of the test. For reference...it took my 8-core Mac Pro (16 virtual cores)...about 40 seconds to run the Cinebench 11.5 cpu test.