Geekbench scores (mac) what do they mean.

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I understand that Geekbench scores -the higher the better when you benchmark your system, but what do the individual categories mean? e.g 'Processor integer performance', 'memory bandwidth performance' etc.

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Thanks for that Neil, but the descriptions are more about what the test does, rather than explanations to what they mean, and I did try and dig a bit deeper, but came up with items like this 'LU decomposition (also called LU factorization) factorizes a matrix as the product of a lower triangular matrix and an upper triangular matrix. The product sometimes includes a permutation matrix as well. The LU decomposition can be viewed as the matrix form of Gaussian elimination. Computers usually solve square systems of linear equations using the LU decomposition, and it is also a key step when inverting a matrix, or computing the determinant of a matrix

Which just make my brain hurt, what I need is a more simple laypersons explanation of what they mean, and how does the different scores relate to real world computing, e.g. which category score(s) have a direct influence on photoshop for example?

Saying that, I have found Geekbench very useful when messing around with the system, without understanding the underlying concepts, at least you can test after each tweak to see if it improves things (or not)
 
Look.. My number is bigger than yours.... The clue is in the benchmark name geekbench ;)
 
arad85 said:
Look.. My number is bigger than yours.... The clue is in the benchmark name geekbench ;)
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but benchmarks actually do give a indication of productivity- my aging macbook pro (which unbelievably I still do all my pro work on) benches at 2700, so a new macbook pro which gets 12,000 is going to be a major major upgrade

the interesting thing to note is how little performance increase you get with mhz increase- a 0.2ghz upgrade is really a tiny tiny upgrade, where as going from core2duo> i5 > quadcore > sandybridge is a massive upgrade every time- best to get the base spec model and then upgrade periodically
I pimped up my macbook pro and then held off on selling it for years because of the massive expense i'd invested in it

I run it super lean and it still flies with lr3, just massive 3gb panoramas slow it down a bit- I can't imagine how fast a new computer must be
 
neil_g said:
i doubt the number actually mean anything relevent other than a scale, the same way windows experience index goes from 0 to 9.9 (depending on OS).
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No.. Windows Experience is just useless. This however, is a really good comparative benchmark that can be used cross platform.



Geekbench is a very useful benchmarking system and is useful for comparing systems against one another. As it measures a great deal of maths intensive operations, and memory speed and bandwidth it is VERY indicative of how a machine will perform in tasks such as Photoshop, Lightroom and Premiere.

What it DOESN'T do is measure graphics performance at all. Nor does it measure hard drive speeds. Your HDD and GPU will be completely ignored during this test.

It's purely measuring processing speed, maths and floating point speed and memory speed and bandwidth. These however, are the key things that effect Photoshop performance.

BTW.. Geekbench is not just a Mac benchmark. It's also for Windows and Linux distros. Because of this, it's one of the very few benchmarks that can directly, an accurately settle things like like "Is my PC faster than your Mac" arguments... although we all know the answer to that don't we? ;)

mrjames said:
I can't imagine how fast a new computer must be
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About this fast?

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http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/533324
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Anything that scores over say 10K will perform very well in Photoshop. I only built this machine because I do a great deal of video encoding, and then processing speed can play a major role. If you have a video that takes 2 hours to encode on one machine, then a 10% increase in performance becomes a quarter hour saving! Something that only takes 30 seconds in Photoshop sees less of an advantage.
 
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neil_g said:
easy there tiger.. all i said was the numbers are a meaningless scale other than higher number=better.
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I know what you were saying.. I was just clarifying that despite the numbers themselves being arbitrary, as a comparative tool, it's one of the best out there for processor/memory performance.
 
Pookeyhead said:
No.. Windows Experience is just useless. This however, is a really good comparative benchmark that can be used cross platform.



Geekbench is a very useful benchmarking system and is useful for comparing systems against one another. As it measures a great deal of maths intensive operations, and memory speed and bandwidth it is VERY indicative of how a machine will perform in tasks such as Photoshop, Lightroom and Premiere.

What it DOESN'T do is measure graphics performance at all. Nor does it measure hard drive speeds. Your HDD and GPU will be completely ignored during this test.

It's purely measuring processing speed, maths and floating point speed and memory speed and bandwidth. These however, are the key things that effect Photoshop performance.

BTW.. Geekbench is not just a Mac benchmark. It's also for Windows and Linux distros. Because of this, it's one of the very few benchmarks that can directly, an accurately settle things like like "Is my PC faster than your Mac" arguments... although we all know the answer to that don't we? ;)



About this fast?

d2Ya9.jpg

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/533324
:)


Anything that scores over say 10K will perform very well in Photoshop. I only built this machine because I do a great deal of video encoding, and then processing speed can play a major role. If you have a video that takes 2 hours to encode on one machine, then a 10% increase in performance becomes a quarter hour saving! Something that only takes 30 seconds in Photoshop sees less of an advantage.
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dammm bro

what's your specs
got to be pretty epic as I think i7 2600k's overclocked only put in about 12-15,000



edit: just seen your specs, that's a major overclock on a high end processor but still I can't believe the score you've got, wow
 
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Pookeyhead said:
BTW.. Geekbench is not just a Mac benchmark. It's also for Windows and Linux distros. Because of this, it's one of the very few benchmarks that can directly, an accurately settle things like like "Is my PC faster than your Mac" arguments... although we all know the answer to that don't we? ;)
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That what OS you're running actually makes bog all/very very little difference to the performance of your machine?:lol:
 
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