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Boot Camp Special Report: Benchmarks

Boot Camp Special Report: Benchmarks

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We ran a quick series of PCMark '04 benchmarks on a MacBook Pro running at 1.83 GHz with 1 GB of RAM. Although PCMark reported our MacBook Pro as having 256 MB of VRAM, it actually uses the ATI X1600 with 128 MB of VRAM.

We compared our MacBook Pro to a Hewlett-Packard with a motherboard model 309F, a 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo processor, and 2 GB of RAM. PCMark listed an ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 video card with 256 MB.

In the below chart, the MacBook Pro is the first (light gray) bar, and the HP laptop is the second (light brown) bar.

As you can see, the MacBook Pro held its own, even with the similarly equipped Hewlett-Packard laptop packing twice the RAM.

The German Mac site MacTechNews also ran some graphics benchmarks using the 3DMark software, revealing a score of 1518 for the MacBook Pro, compared with a score of 3334 for an Athlon XP 3500 with a GeForce 7800GT, and a score of 1558 for an Athlon XP 2800 with the far inferior Radeon X800 Pro -- obviously Apple still has some work to do on the X1600 driver.

Meanwhile, MacFixIt reader Dirk has posted some Cinebench and 3DMark '06 benchmarks, adding to our series of benchmarks from yesterday's report.

Dirk writes:

"I made the two benchmarks on my iMac 20" / 2 GB / 256 MB VRAM. See results for Cinebench and 3DMark06.

"Here is a screenshot of the 3DMark06 results."

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