Xbench and Sonnet 800 G4 |
January, 14, 2003 11:37 AM |
midd33 |
Just downloaded and ran Xbench 1.0b5. I didn't get any results for the L2 and L3 caches from the Sonnet board. Hoping someone else will try and see if their results are the same. By the way, I'm running Sonnet 1.26 drivers on Jaguar (10.2.3) 704 megs of ram. |
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RE: Xbench and Sonnet 800 G4 |
February, 18, 2003 1:45 PM |
marcush |
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I have not seen any improvement in OpenGL performance w/Xbench 1.0 and 10.2.4. I get an overall score of 32 and a framerate of 22fps. Maybe a fresh install will get better results. I'll try that when I get a chance this week. |
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RE: Xbench and Sonnet 800 G4 |
February, 18, 2003 1:19 PM |
muri |
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With Xbench 1.0 and 10.2.4 I got 42 fps ... I guess the open gl problem was corrected with the new release. Anyway, nobody answered the question: how does G4/800 perform? My PL G3/500 scored 49.84 with a remarkable 78.47 in the FPU test. |
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RE: Xbench and Sonnet 800 G4 |
February, 16, 2003 2:38 PM |
midd33 |
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Yeah I've seen the FAQ. But I have seen other people's benchmarks and the same board has gotten better results than mine. I've even run iTunes visual and still can't get any faster than 16 fps. |
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RE: Xbench and Sonnet 800 G4 |
February, 16, 2003 11:21 AM |
marcush |
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If you read the FAQ at the xbench site the author acknowledges that the Radeon cards get poor results. "Why are the OpenGL scores for Radeon cards so low? It appears that there may be some driver problem with ATI driver installs on top of 10.2.3. It is rumored that 10.2.4 may cure this problem, as might newer drivers from ATI. Make sure to carefully check the driver's system requirements before installing new drivers. This issue appears to affect windowed OpenGL more than full-screen, so it may not be a significant problem for full-screen games." I have not run xbench since I upgraded but it will be interestinng to see the results. |
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RE: Xbench and Sonnet 800 G4 |
February, 16, 2003 9:38 AM |
midd33 |
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Well, Xbench 1.0 acknowledges the caches of my Sonnet 800. I've already posted about my problem(s) with one or both so I won't do so here. However, with my Radeon Mac Edition, I'm only getting 18.88 fps in OpenGL. This is with a clean install of 10.2 and then using the combo updates to 10.2.4. No install of the ATi updates was added. My board is currently in the first slot of my powertower pro. I know it should be a little faster. Any advice? |
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RE: Xbench and Sonnet 800 G4 |
January, 26, 2003 6:22 PM |
OSXGuru |
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It will load quite early in the boot process--much sooner than the PowerLogix software, but not quite as soon as Sonnet's. I could actually make it load even earlier--I may experiment a little. I will have an option for write-through vs. write-back. As for speculative access, I will just turn it on--there does not appear to be any reason to turn it off, except for the earliest part of the boot process, which is handled elsewhere. |
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RE: Xbench and Sonnet 800 G4 |
January, 21, 2003 12:47 AM |
joevt |
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Will it have options for speculative access and write thru? I like to turn on speculative access and turn off write thru for maximum speed in games like Quake 3 and I would like to get rid of the sometimes flaky Power Logix Cache Control X. Also, how early in the boot process will the settings of L3CacheConfig (or whatever you'll call it) take effect? Cache Control X doesn't start until very late. Making them take effect earlier may shorten the boot time. Maybe an option to turn some stuff on early and other stuff on later may be useful... |
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RE: Xbench and Sonnet 800 G4 |
January, 20, 2003 8:09 PM |
OSXGuru |
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There are indeed a couple of different ways in Mac OS X to indicate that the L2 (and L3) caches are available. L2CacheConfig had one method covered, but not the other. The next version of L2CacheConfig will get them both (and work with the L3 cache). |
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RE: Xbench and Sonnet 800 G4 |
January, 18, 2003 3:00 PM |
chuckberhain |
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10.2.3 - 576 MB / Sonnet 800 G4 / PM 7500 (using Sonnet's OSX software) You are right. I Ran Xbench 1.0b6 and did not get any results either for L2 and L3 caches. However, About This Mac (from the apple menu) reports them correctly on that system. ---------------- I also ran Xbench on a PM 7300 / 10.2.3 / Sonnet 500 G3 (which was installed using XPostFacto) and get the EXACT reverse. Xbench reports L1 and L2 correctly, but About This Mac says L2 cache is 0k. (zero k) ---------------- I also know that before updating to OSX, the apple profiler did not correctly identify the G4 800 card correctly, but their (Sonnets) metronome software did identify it correctly as an 800. So there seems to be some problems with the various processors being correctly identified by the different companies softwares. I suppose they each check for something different(ly). |
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RE: Xbench and Sonnet 800 G4 |
January, 15, 2003 12:06 PM |
gabb |
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I am sorry I cannot answer that but I was just curious how is the Sonner Crescendo G4 800 (PCI)? Is it worth getting? And how did u install OS X 10.2.3? I have PTP with Newer Tech 400 G4 card and wouldn't install the upgrade, just 10.2. GAbby |