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Have a PPC Mac? Benchmark your video card, share

21 June 2012 2,080 views 6 Comments

powerpc fan group wants to know how fast your legacy mac's graphics card is.

There are people out there just like you and, thanks to the internet, it’s not very hard to find them. Case in point is the PowerPC Mac and the folks that love Apple’s abandoned processor platform. In fact, there is group so dedicated that they want to compare PPC Mac graphics card performance, really.

Fansite Mac PowerPC has put out a call to legacy Mac lovers to benchmark their aging gracefully computers and share the results with the community:

Download OpenMark 1.60 and launch the app. Once it’s on, you go to the OpenMark menu bar and choose “Run Benchmark”. After that, you just wait for a few minutes and this app will test the raw speed of the video card, drawing a variable number of triangles and generating a report with the machine score. Feel free to share your score with us!

Well, don’t just sit there — go forth, benchmark and be sure to share your results…

via Dan Knight

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6 Comments »

MacPowerPC said:

iMac G5 / 2.1GHz / Leopard / ATI Radeon X600 XT / Score 6308.
Thank you for the visit and for the post. I loved it.

# 22 June 2012 at 4:24 am

tcarlson said:

Power Mac G4/1.6GHz/Leopard/ATI Radeon Pro/Score 1331.

I tried running this app on an OS X Tiger machine first. It wouldn’t complete the benchmark process. Hmm…

# 23 June 2012 at 8:51 am

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# 23 June 2012 at 12:49 pm

tcarlson said:

I went back and tried the app on another Tiger Machine. This time, it worked fine. Power Mac G4 (digital audio) / 533 GHz / Tiger / ATI Radeon 7500 / Score 557

Oh, the score on Leopard machine above was with Radeon 9000 Pro.

# 23 June 2012 at 5:10 pm

the rocr (author) said:

Don’t forget to post your results at http://macpowerpc.com/2012/06/03/openmark-for-mac-powerpc-test-the-speed-of-the-video-card/

# 23 June 2012 at 8:30 pm

Dane Llewellyn said:

My home rig is a upgraded G3. It has a 1.1GHz PPC 750GX, 1GB RAM, ATI Radeon PCI 9200, 80GB boot HD, 80GB storage HD and 12GB boot HD for OS 9.2. It is running OS 10.4.6. My score is 1179. Not bad for a system designed in 1998.

# 30 July 2012 at 11:53 pm