1.5Ghz VIA C7 Mini-itx motherboard vs 8 Core MacPro

the results from md5 -t

Jetway J7F2WE1G5D-OC-PB Motherboard running OpenBSD
MD5 time trial. Processing 10000 10000-byte blocks...
Digest = 52e5f9c9e6f656f3e1800dfa5579d089
Time = 1.087264 seconds
Speed = 91973982.399859 bytes/second

8 Core MacPro running OS X 10.5
MD5 time trial. Digesting 100000 10000-byte blocks ... done
Digest = 766a2bb5d24bddae466c572bcabca3ee
Time = 2.261262 seconds
Speed = 442230944.000000 bytes/second

Surprise, More Benchmark results

This time from a £300 Dell Dimension 3000 running OS X 10.4.4 with a 16MB TNT2 m64 PCI graphics card installed as the onboard card is not supported.

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Results 47.91
System Info
Xbench Version 1.2
System Version 10.4.4 (8G1171)
Physical RAM 512 MB
Model ADP2,1
Drive Type SAMSUNG SP0401N
CPU Test 50.12
GCD Loop 71.35 3.76 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 68.36 1.62 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 29.68 978.99 Mflop/sec
Floating Point Library 57.23 9.97 Mops/sec
Thread Test 95.33
Computation 70.31 1.42 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 147.98 6.37 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 69.75
System 60.54
Allocate 45.84 168.33 Kalloc/sec
Fill 83.04 4037.70 MB/sec
Copy 63.72 1316.09 MB/sec
Stream 82.27
Copy 79.54 1642.87 MB/sec
Scale 79.94 1651.63 MB/sec
Add 85.41 1819.49 MB/sec
Triad 84.52 1808.05 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 36.45
Line 33.85 2.25 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 23.61 7.05 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 25.20 2.05 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 66.73 1.68 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 94.28 5.90 Kchars/sec
User Interface Test 36.60
Elements 36.60 167.97 refresh/sec
Disk Test 38.91
Sequential 71.79
Uncached Write 44.16 27.11 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 91.29 51.65 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 78.80 23.06 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 106.13 53.34 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 26.69
Uncached Write 8.84 0.94 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 68.24 21.85 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 74.52 0.53 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 115.52 21.44 MB/sec [256K blocks]

More Benchmark Results

XBench results from my G4 PowerMac with SATA disks installed

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Results 19.38
System Info
Xbench Version 1.2
System Version 10.4 (8A428)
Physical RAM 640 MB
Model PowerMac3,1
Processor PowerPC G4 @ 450 MHz
Version 7400 (Max) v2.8
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 1024K @ 225 MHz
Bus Frequency 100 MHz
Video Card ATY,R350
Drive Type WDC WD1200JS-55NCB1
CPU Test 20.67
GCD Loop 43.58 2.30 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 14.04 333.48 Mflop/sec
vecLib FFT 22.79 751.85 Mflop/sec
Floating Point Library 18.04 3.14 Mops/sec
Thread Test 21.41
Computation 19.39 392.84 Kops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 23.90 1.03 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 14.00
System 18.66
Allocate 46.73 171.62 Kalloc/sec
Fill 18.49 899.16 MB/sec
Copy 11.72 242.17 MB/sec
Stream 11.20
Copy 10.54 217.72 MB/sec [altivec]
Scale 10.65 219.94 MB/sec [altivec]
Add 11.91 253.66 MB/sec [altivec]
Triad 11.84 253.26 MB/sec [altivec]
Quartz Graphics Test 23.58
Line 21.31 1.42 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 19.14 5.71 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 20.11 1.64 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 30.81 777.20 beziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 32.61 2.04 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 28.94
Spinning Squares 28.94 36.71 frames/sec
User Interface Test 9.87
Elements 9.87 45.29 refresh/sec
Disk Test 60.80
Sequential 80.24
Uncached Write 98.83 60.68 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 105.54 59.72 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 45.87 13.43 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 118.21 59.41 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 48.94
Uncached Write 18.52 1.96 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 110.22 35.28 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 90.48 0.64 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 131.51 24.40 MB/sec [256K blocks]

17″ PowerBook xBench Results

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Results 132.93
System Info
Xbench Version 1.1.3
System Version 10.4.1 (8B15)
Physical RAM 512 MB
Model PowerBook5,7
Processor PowerPC G4 @ 1.67 GHz
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 512K @ 1.67 GHz
Bus Frequency 167 MHz
Video Card ATY,RV360M11
Drive Type ST9100823A
CPU Test 193.63
GCD Loop 182.83 7.14 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 193.07 698.23 Mflop/sec
AltiVec Basic 204.41 5.94 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 199.44 3.10 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 189.86 7.60 Mops/sec
Thread Test 137.50
Computation 97.15 1.31 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 235.21 2.95 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 133.55
System 141.28
Allocate 771.57 503.29 Kalloc/sec
Fill 170.86 1360.08 MB/sec
Copy 71.00 354.98 MB/sec
Stream 126.62
Copy 125.39 916.62 MB/sec [altivec]
Scale 126.36 932.57 MB/sec [altivec]
Add 129.31 827.57 MB/sec [altivec]
Triad 125.50 766.79 MB/sec [altivec]
Quartz Graphics Test 149.33
Line 130.15 3.31 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 125.46 8.83 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 146.70 3.38 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 161.82 1.76 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 207.00 3.37 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 134.70
Spinning Squares 134.70 94.27 frames/sec
User Interface Test 231.27
Elements 231.27 74.39 refresh/sec
Disk Test 69.98
Sequential 79.31
Uncached Write 86.47 36.04 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 58.84 24.09 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 152.72 24.18 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 65.26 26.37 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 62.61
Uncached Write 48.56 0.73 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 63.16 14.24 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 71.21 0.47 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 74.50 15.33 MB/sec [256K blocks]

XBench Results

System Spec & benchmark results of my 12″ iBook
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Results 28.66
System Info
Xbench Version 1.1.3
System Version 10.3.5 (7M34)
Physical RAM 256 MB
Model PowerBook4,1
Processor PowerPC G3 @ 500 MHz
Version 750CXe v2.4 v2.5
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 256K @ 500 MHz
Bus Frequency 67 MHz
Video Card ATY,RageM3
Drive Type TOSHIBA MK1017GAP
CPU Test 21.88
GCD Loop 36.86 1.44 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 62.30 225.29 Mflop/sec
vecLib FFT 7.96 123.57 Mflop/sec
Floating Point Library 71.46 2.86 Mops/sec
Thread Test 39.37
Computation 27.76 374.72 Kops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 67.68 849.69 Klocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 15.30
System 15.89
Allocate 344.83 224.93 Kalloc/sec
Fill 12.87 102.42 MB/sec
Copy 9.24 46.21 MB/sec
Stream 14.76
Copy 13.89 101.51 MB/sec
Scale 13.51 99.70 MB/sec
Add 15.74 100.73 MB/sec
Triad 16.29 99.55 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 38.91
Line 36.91 941.80 lines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 42.64 3.00 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 43.94 1.02 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 41.58 458.64 beziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 32.10 523.27 chars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 54.63
Spinning Squares 54.63 38.23 frames/sec
User Interface Test 41.95
Elements 41.95 13.49 refresh/sec
Disk Test 25.01
Sequential 24.71
Uncached Write 21.22 8.85 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 21.16 8.67 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 46.04 7.29 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 21.85 8.83 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 25.31
Uncached Write 17.32 0.26 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 24.20 5.46 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 39.93 0.26 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 29.43 6.06 MB/sec [256K blocks]