Benchmarks for all three 8-Core Penryn Mac Pros reported
Each of the three machines were configured identically with 2.00GB of 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMMs, Mac OS X 10.5.1 build 9B2117, and pit against a baseline, where a score of 1000 represents the performance of a Power Mac G5 running at 1.6GHz.
Additionally, each model was tested under Geekbench 2 running both 32-bit and 64-bit code for a more in-depth comparison of the systems' capabilities.
"Whatâs interesting about the charts [below] is that the performance difference between the 2.8GHz and 3.2GHz Mac Pro isnât as great as the difference between running 32-bit code and 64-bit code," the firm concluded following the tests. "In fact, the 2.8GHz Mac Pro running 64-bit code is faster than the 3.2GHz Mac Pro running 32-bit code."
60 Comments
Penryn? Penryn Processors are 45 nm Core2 processors. The Xeons the Mac Pro are using now are codenamed "Harpertown"
Well I think I will order a 2.8 and 8800 card and wait for the card. This info was useful to me.
Penryn? Penryn Processors are 45 nm Core2 processors. The Xeons the Mac Pro are using now are codenamed "Harpertown"
I thought someone explained that Penryn is the codename for the newest class of CPUs, and that Harpertown is one of the Penryn CPUs.
Interesting result from the 32 versus 64 bit...I've seen tons of FUD from people who are adamant that apps shouldn't be updated to 64 bit code because they think it will cut performance in half.
I thought someone explained that Penryn is the codename for the newest class of CPUs, and that Harpertown is one of the Penryn CPUs.
Yeah, I think you are right, it appears to be referring to ALL of the 45nm ones. Sorry.