Giga Designs M5D-1213Q G-Celerator DUAL 1.33 GHz in a Digital Audio G4

I. Intro & Installation | II. Temps and Cooling | III. System Tests | IV. Graphics Tests | V. Apps Tests

III. System Benchmarks

Startup Time:

I recorded startup times from:

1. System logs
2. Stopwatch - at startup (not restart) from startup chime until a window appeared in the Finder. (Avg. 3 runs)

Before timing, I cleared out the caches and restarted 3 times to insure proper rebuilding. Then, I tracked startup times with a stopwatch and logs.

Startup time (in secs)	733 MHz GeForce 2MX	733 MHz Radeon 9600	2 x 1.33 GHz GeForce 2MX	2 x 1.33 GHz Radeon 9600
System logs	12	22	8	13
Stopwatch	48	75	37	48

Altivec Fractal Carbon:

Graphics cards didn't make a difference, so they're ignored. Included are Altivec Fractal Carbon generated 1 and 2 CPU scores:

Altivec Fractal v1.2 scores	733 MHz	2 x 1.33 GHz 1 CPU	2 x 1.33 GHz 2 CPU
Megaflops (average 3 runs)	2866	5301	10354

XBench:

I provide XBench scores just for main tests but include the 'Spinning Square - FPS' in the OpenGL Test.

Note: Final scores are low because of the Disk Test, further comments below. Final scores are best used for before and after Giga comparisons, not against the XBench database; but individual scores not impacted by the Disk Test might be compared.

XBench v1.1.3	733 MHz GeForce 2MX	733 MHz Radeon 9600	2 x 1.33 GHz GeForce 2MX	2 x 1.33 GHz Radeon 9600
Final score	88.45	85.41	133.94	136.45
CPU Test	88.03	88.18	164.09	165.28
Thread Test	64.61	63.44	178.13	178.76
Memory Test	111.13	112.10	142.88	142.14
Quart Graphics Test	99.99	110.96	141.41	180.06
OpenGL Graphics Test * Spinning Squares	83.70 58.57 fps	63.63 44.53 fps	135.11 94.55 fps	144.27 78.96 fps
User Interface Test	148.31	156.04	225.92	264.63
Disk Test **	68.42	67.59	68.23	68.78

*XBench's OpenGL Graphics Test should probably be taken with a grain of salt. The best score I've ever achieved was 176.32 (spinning squares 123.39 fps) with a Rage 128 (!?!) in a Cube with a GigaDesigns M7-1213N 1.3GHz. More graphics tests coming up in Part IV.

**Disk Test results are rather low because I used the boot volume: 3d and last partition (15 GB) of the 120GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7. With Giga/9600 combo, Disk Test scores are over 110 if I use the first partition on that HD or an older Barracuda IV, which pushes the Final score over 150. I've seen a Final score of 164 when using a Seagate Cheetah 15K.3 on an OEM ATTO UL3D for the Disk Test (Disk Test score 167).


Next: Part IV: Graphics Benchmarks

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