Speedmark 6.5 results: MacPros
| Computer | Speedmark 6.5 Score |
|---|---|
| Mac Pro 2.8GHz quad-core Xeon Nehalem 3GB RAM (Mid 2010) | 207 |
| Mac Pro 2.4GHz quad-core x2 (8 cores total) Xeon Westmere 6GB RAM (Mid 2010) | 216 |
| Mac Pro 3.33GHz 6-Core Xeon Westmere 3GB RAM (Mid 2010, BTO) | 263 |
| Mac Pro 2.66GHz 6-Core x2 (12 cores total) Xeon Westmere 12GB RAM (Mid 2010) | 262 |
| Mac Pro 2.66GHz 6-Core x2 (12 cores total) Xeon Westmere 6GB RAM (Mid 2010) | 261 |
| Mac Pro 2.66GHz quad-core Xeon Nehalem 3GB RAM (Early 2009) | 184 |
| Mac Pro 2.26GHz quad-core x2 (8 cores total) Xeon Nehalem 6GB RAM (Early 2009) | 195 |
Higher scores are better. Older models in italics. Best result in bold.
Speedmark 6.5 individual application test results
| Computer | Duplicate 1GB File |
Zip 2GB folder |
Unzip 2GB folder | Pages ’09 Open Word Doc |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mac Pro 2.8GHz quad-core Xeon Nehalem 3GB RAM (Mid 2010) |
18 | 172 | 38 | 74 |
| Mac Pro 2.4GHz quad-core x2 (8 cores total) Xeon Westmere 6GB RAM (Mid 2010) |
19 | 191 | 34 | 84 |
| Mac Pro 3.33GHz 6-Core Xeon Westmere 3GB RAM (Mid 2010, BTO) |
18 | 148 | 26 | 62 |
| Mac Pro 2.66GHz 6-Core x2 (12 cores total) Xeon Westmere 6GB RAM (Mid 2010) |
18 | 169 | 32 | 75 |
| Mac Pro 2.66GHz 6-Core x2 (12 cores total) Xeon Westmere 12GB RAM (Mid 2010) |
19 | 170 | 30 | 69 |
| Mac Pro 2.66GHz quad-core Xeon Nehalem 3GB RAM (Early 2009) |
23 | 185 | 45 | 82 |
| Mac Pro 2.26GHz quad-core x2 (8 cores total) Xeon Nehalem 6GB RAM (Early 2009) |
22 | 206 | 38 | 93 |
Results are in seconds. Lower results are better. Older models in italics. Best result in bold.
Speedmark 6.5 individual application test results
| Computer | iTunes 10 AAC to MP3 Encode |
Import movie archive to iMovie ’09 | iMovie ’09 Export to iTunes 10 for iPhone |
Call of Duty 4 framerate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mac Pro 2.8GHz quad-core Xeon Nehalem 3GB RAM (Mid 2010) |
95 | 63 | 56 | 88 |
| Mac Pro 2.4GHz quad-core x2 (8 cores total) Xeon Westmere 6GB RAM (Mid 2010) |
104 | 52 | 58 | 87 |
| Mac Pro 3.33GHz 6-Core Xeon Westmere 3GB RAM (Mid 2010, BTO) |
81 | 48 | 48 | 88 |
| Mac Pro 2.66GHz 6-Core x2 (12 cores total) Xeon Westmere 6GB RAM (Mid 2010) |
91 | 45 | 50 | 88 |
| Mac Pro 2.66GHz 6-Core x2 (12 cores total) Xeon Westmere 12GB RAM (Mid 2010) |
92 | 44 | 51 | 88 |
| Mac Pro 2.66GHz quad-core Xeon Nehalem 3GB RAM (Early 2009) |
101 | 71 | 68 | 59 |
| Mac Pro 2.26GHz quad-core x2 (8 cores total) Xeon Nehalem 6GB RAM (Early 2009) |
114 | 58 | 70 | 58 |
Call of Duty 4 results are based on framerate; higher results are better. All other test results in the above chart are in seconds; lower results are better. Older models in italics. Best result in bold.
Speedmark 6.5 individual application test results
| Computer | iPhoto ’09 200 JPEG import | Photoshop CS5 |
HandBrake 0.9.4 | CineBench R15 Graphics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mac Pro 2.8GHz quad-core Xeon Nehalem 3GB RAM (Mid 2010) |
30 | 55 | 218 | 30 |
| Mac Pro 2.4GHz quad-core x2 (8 cores total) Xeon Westmere 6GB RAM (Mid 2010) |
32 | 60 | 163 | 26 |
| Mac Pro 3.33GHz 6-Core Xeon Westmere 3GB RAM (Mid 2010, BTO) |
27 | 55 | 144 | 34 |
| Mac Pro 2.66GHz 6-Core x2 (12 cores total) Xeon Westmere 6GB RAM (Mid 2010) |
27 | 57 | 132 | 30 |
| Mac Pro 2.66GHz 6-Core x2 (12 cores total) Xeon Westmere 12GB RAM (Mid 2010) |
28 | 57 | 133 | 30 |
| Mac Pro 2.66GHz quad-core Xeon Nehalem 3GB RAM (Early 2009) |
36 | 64 | 229 | 14 |
| Mac Pro 2.26GHz quad-core x2 (8 cores total) Xeon Nehalem 6GB RAM (Early 2009) |
36 | 66 | 172 | 14 |
CineBench R15 Graphics results are scores; higher results are better. All other test results in the above chart are in seconds; lower results are better. Older models in italics. Best result in bold.
Speedmark 6.5 individual application test results
| Computer | Cine- Bench R15 CPU |
Mathe- matica Mark 7 |
Parallels World- Bench Multitask test | Aperture 3 import and process |
Multi- tasking |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mac Pro 2.8GHz quad-core Xeon Nehalem 3GB RAM (Mid 2010) |
82 | 12 | 306 | 118 | 118 |
| Mac Pro 2.4GHz quad-core x2 (8 cores total) Xeon Westmere 6GB RAM (Mid 2010) |
50 | 21 | 331 | 131 | 131 |
| Mac Pro 3.33GHz 6-Core Xeon Westmere 3GB RAM (Mid 2010, BTO) |
48 | 19 | 253 | 101 | 59 |
| Mac Pro 2.66GHz 6-Core x2 (12 cores total) Xeon Westmere 6GB RAM (Mid 2010) |
32 | 32 | 294 | 117 | 60 |
| Mac Pro 2.66GHz 6-Core x2 (12 cores total) Xeon Westmere 12GB RAM (Mid 2010) |
31 | 32 | 295 | 115 | 62 |
| Mac Pro 2.66GHz quad-core Xeon Nehalem 3GB RAM (Early 2009) |
86 | 11 | 320 | 127 | 65 |
| Mac Pro 2.26GHz quad-core x2 (8 cores total) Xeon Nehalem 6GB RAM (Early 2009) |
52 | 20 | 350 | 148 | 71 |
MathematicaMark 7 results are scores; higher results are better. All other test results in the above chart are in seconds; lower results are better. Older models in italics. Best result in bold.
How we tested. Speedmark 6.5 scores are relative to those of a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo Mac mini (Mid 2010) with 2GB of RAM, which is assigned a score of 100. All iMacs were tested with OS X 10.6.4 and standard shipping RAM configuration. We duplicated a 1GB file, created a Zip archive in the Finder from the two 1GB files and then unzipped it. We converted 135 minutes of AAC audio files to MP3 using iTunes’ High Quality setting. In iMovie ’09, we imported a camera archive and exported it to iTunes using the Mobile Devices setting. We ran a Timedemo at 1024-by-768 with 4X anti-aliasing on in Call of Duty 4. We imported 200 JPEGs into iPhoto ’09. The Photoshop Suite test is a set of 23 scripted tasks using a 50MB file. Photoshop’s memory was set to 70 percent and History was set to Minimum. For our multitasking test, we timed the Photoshop test again, but with the iTunes MP3 encoding and file compression tests running in the background. We used HandBrake to encode four chapters from a DVD previously ripped to the hard drive to H.264. We recorded how long it took to render a scene with multiprocessors in Cinebench and ran that application’s OpenGL, frames per second test. We ran the Evaluate Notebook test in MathematicaMark 7. We ran the WorldBench 6 multitasking test on a Parallels 6 VM running Windows 7 Professional. We timed the import and processing time for 200 photos in Aperture.—Macworld Lab testing by James Galbraith, McKinley Noble, Gil Loyola, and William Wang
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