A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the performance of the new Mac Pros. Unfortunately I only had Geekbench 2 results for the eight-core 2.8GHz Mac Pro. I thought I’d follow up on that post with Geekbench 2 results for all three eight-core Mac Pros.
Setup
- Mac Pro (Early 2008)
- Two quad-core Intel Xeons @ 2.8GHz, 3.0GHz, or 3.2GHz
- 2.00 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
- Mac OS X 10.5.1 (Build 9B2117)
If you’re not familiar with Geekbench 2, benchmarks are scored against a baseline, where a score of 1000 represents the performance of a Power Mac G5 @ 1.6GHz. Higher is better.
Results
Overall Performance
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 3.2GHz (64-bit) |
9602 | |
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 3.2GHz (32-bit) |
8083 | |
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 3.0GHz (64-bit) |
9110 | |
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 3.0GHz (32-bit) |
7742 | |
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 2.8GHz (64-bit) |
8978 | |
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 2.8GHz (32-bit) |
7595 |
Integer Performance
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 3.2GHz (64-bit) |
10859 | |
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 3.2GHz (32-bit) |
8678 | |
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 3.0GHz (64-bit) |
10087 | |
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 3.0GHz (32-bit) |
8071 | |
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 2.8GHz (64-bit) |
9911 | |
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 2.8GHz (32-bit) |
7374 |
Floating Point Performance
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 3.2GHz (64-bit) |
14408 | |
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 3.2GHz (32-bit) |
12353 | |
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 3.0GHz (64-bit) |
13977 | |
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 3.0GHz (32-bit) |
12306 | |
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 2.8GHz (64-bit) |
13618 | |
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 2.8GHz (32-bit) |
12317 |
Memory Performance
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 3.2GHz (64-bit) |
2749 | |
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 3.2GHz (32-bit) |
2588 | |
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 3.0GHz (64-bit) |
2660 | |
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 3.0GHz (32-bit) |
2509 | |
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 2.8GHz (64-bit) |
2681 | |
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 2.8GHz (32-bit) |
2517 |
Stream Performance
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 3.2GHz (64-bit) |
2089 | |
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 3.2GHz (32-bit) |
2052 | |
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 3.0GHz (64-bit) |
2064 | |
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 3.0GHz (32-bit) |
2031 | |
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 2.8GHz (64-bit) |
2071 | |
| Mac Pro (Early 2008) Intel Xeon @ 2.8GHz (32-bit) |
2001 |
Conclusions
What’s interesting about the above charts is that the performance difference between the 2.8GHz and 3.2GHz Mac Pro isn’t as great as the difference between running 32-bit code and 64-bit code. In fact, the 2.8GHz Mac Pro running 64-bit code is faster than the 3.2GHz Mac Pro running 32-bit code!
Really, though, if you’re using a new Mac Pro you’re got a ridiculous amount of processing performance at your disposal (even if you’re “stuck” with a 2.8GHz model running 32-bit code).