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Xbench - 1.3

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Current Version:	1.3
Release Date:	2006-08-13
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	42,019
Downloads (all versions):	148,653

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Xbench was developed to provide a comprehensive benchmarking solution for Mac OS X. Xbench is useful not only for comparing the relative speeds of two different Macintoshes, but also for optimizing performance on a single machine. Xbench is accompanied by a website that allows graphical side-by-side comparison of any out of thousands of submitted benchmarks.

What's new in this version:

Corrected a mistake that caused the altivec test to be turned off on PowerPC machines
Turned off coalesced graphics updates for all platforms on Mac OS 10.4.4 and higher
Switched compiler to GCC 4.0 on PowerPC. This provides some boost to floating point and AltiVec scores, and these have been recalibrated accordingly. This also raises Xbench's system requirements to 10.3.9 or higher.
Revised machine database to include the MacBook, Intel iMac and several other models
Added code to dynamically load machine database on launch from the Xbench website
Added support for temporarily turning off beam sync on Tiger while running graphics tests
Fixed an issue that causes Xbench to fail to launch on Leopard
Built with Xcode 2.4

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher
Universal Binary

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Overdue for an update - Version: 1.3, 4/2/2009 03:34PM PST

BradMacPro87

it's getting to be two and a half years old. Not optimized for Mac OS 10.5 or Nehalem processors.

1.3 Still featurless and uninformative!!! - Version: 1.3, 9/19/2007 04:09AM PST

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Tesselator

XBench seems to be all that there is for Mac as benchmarking goes.
It's clearly the worst benchmarking application I've ever used on ANY platform. Even ancient Amiga or Windows 2 benchmarking utilities kick the crud out of this. It supplies you with no interesting information and only runs stupidly simple non-real-world tests. It doesn't know and can't test multiple CPU cores (single core tests ONLY) so it's not even good for that really. It might be ok for testing various drive configurations but that would be about it.

XBench 1.3 is just another in a series of let-downs. When will Mac users get a REAL benchmarking suite?

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XBench, SpeedTools, Power Fractal

I can't understand the results - Version: 1.3, 6/27/2007 01:50AM PST

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davidasta1
If you take a look in the "Results Comparison Site" (http://db.xbench.com/) and you order by "Average Score", the results are a bit unbelievable.

How is possible that a Mac mini (Intel) is more powerful than a MacBook Pro and MacBook?

How is possible that an AppleTV is more powerful than a iMac G5 and a Mac mini (PPC)?

And looking inside the models, how is possible that a MacBook with similar results than mine, even worse in some cases, have a better performance, more than 30.68%?

Compare, for example "Macbook" MacBook vs "DAG Computer" MacBook.

Are the results absolutely trustworthy?