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Xbench

Xbench - 1.1.2

Benchmarking utility

All Time: (4.0)
Version 1.1.2: (3.3)
Selected Version: 1.1.2
Release Date: 2003-09-29
License: Freeware
Downloads (version 1.1.2): 4,208
Downloads (all versions): 153,771

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Product Description:

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:

  • Fixed CPU test crash
  • Minor changes to thread computation test
  • Fixed issue limiting RAM reporting to 2 gigabytes on G5s
  • Fixed L2 cache speed and bus frequency to show in GHz if applicable
  • Fixed a crashing bug during the text test

Operating System Requirements:

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

  • Mac OS X 10.3
  • Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.2 or higher

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Feedback Summary:

Version 1.1.2:
Overall Rating: (3.3) Features: (3.7) Support: (3.0)
Ease of Use: (5.0) Quality / Stability: (3.7) Price: (5.0)
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Xbench ReviewWhere's the database - Version: 1.3, 9/19/2009 12:13PM PST

GMikG
Nice utility, but where's the database? And the upload for your results doesn't work anymore,
there's a server issue.
Maybe I'll donate when they get it up and running.
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Xbench CommentaryOverdue 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.
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Xbench Review1.3 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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