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Xbench

Xbench - 1.0b3

benchmarking utility

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All Time: (4.0)
Version 1.0b3: (4.4)
Selected Version: 1.0b3
Release Date: 2002-11-25
License: Beta
Downloads (version 1.0b3): 592
Downloads (all versions): 153,704

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Product Description:

Xbench was developed in response to the relative lack of convenient benchmarking tools on Mac OS X. This is essentially a "proof-of-concept" release, for the purposes of collecting feedback.

What's new in this version:

  • added "Spinning Squares" OpenGL test
  • fixed altivec test to better utilize caches & not cause VM thrash on low memory machines
  • added 4k block size disk test (simulates heavy VM paging)
  • fixed bug causing erroneously high results on almost-full disks
  • added L1 cache size, and bus frequency reporting [L2 and L3 reporting not yet working]
  • added document icons

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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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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