Evaluating Performance of a Xeon 5355-based Mac Pro
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Lionel
- 20/02/2007
iTunes Test
This test was performed to give the basis for a comparison with other CPUs (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo, described in this previous article), as one will not be buying an 8 cores-based Mac Pro to encode music tracks. We converted a 605MB AIFF file into AAC 128.
This encoding does not benefit from a multicore architecture, so the Mac Pro with 4 cores @ 3.0GHz is marginally faster, and the GHz efficiency is higher for a Xeon than for a Core 2 Duo (15.6 vs. 14.4), but it remains minor.
This test was performed to give the basis for a comparison with other CPUs (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo, described in this previous article), as one will not be buying an 8 cores-based Mac Pro to encode music tracks. We converted a 605MB AIFF file into AAC 128.
This encoding does not benefit from a multicore architecture, so the Mac Pro with 4 cores @ 3.0GHz is marginally faster, and the GHz efficiency is higher for a Xeon than for a Core 2 Duo (15.6 vs. 14.4), but it remains minor.
