Geekbench Preview 2 for Rosetta
Rosetta performance seems to be an area of concern for a number of Mac users; several people have asked us about measuring Rosetta performance with Geekbench. Currently, Geekbench doesn’t have any benchmarks that test Rosetta performance so, as a solution, we’ve released Geekbench Preview 2 for Rosetta, which is a PowerPC-only version of Geekbench Preview 2.
Geekbench Preview 2 for Rosetta will run natively on PowerPC-based Macs, but will run under Rosetta on Intel-based Macs, and should give an idea how efficient Rosetta is at translating PowerPC instructions.
So, if you’ve got an iMac Core Duo or a MacBook Pro, download it and give it a try.
