Benchmarks Galore!
For those of you who don’t follow the Primate Labs Blog, I thought I’d mention that I posted a number of benchmarks there this month; along with benchmarks for the new iMacs and Mac minis, I also updated the Mac Performance and PC Performance charts.
I also managed to port a subset of Geekbench to both the Xbox 360 and the iPhone (turns out the iPhone is arguably faster than the Xbox 360). Whoops, maybe not.
So, yeah, I guess you could say I was busy in August.
Um, what? How is the iPhone faster than the Xbox 360? For all of the benchmarks you’ve run on both the iPhone and the Xbox 360, the Xbox 360 handily beats the iPhone.
Blowfish X360 ST: 2.63 MB/sec (60)
Blowfish X360 MT: 7.04 MB/sec (174)
Blowfish iPhone: 4.56 MB/sec (104)
Dot Product X360 ST: 92.0 Mflops (190)
Dot Product X360 MT: 190.3 Mflops (416)
Dot Product iPhone: 7.75 Mflops (16)
Stream Add X360: 97.5 MB/sec (70)
Stream Add iPhone: 52.3 MB/sec (34)
Stream Copy X360: 274.3 MB/sec (207)
Stream Copy iPhone: 154.4 MB/sec (110)
Stream Scale X360: 225.9 MB/sec (146)
Stream Scale iPhone: 52.3 MB/sec (39)
Stream Triad X360: 95.1 MB/sec (67)
Stream Triad iPhone: 18.2 MB/sec (10)
The only metric by which the iPhone beats the Xbox 360 is in the Blowfish test, assuming that the Xbox 360 is limited to single-threading. I think it’s disingenuous to say that the iPhone is “arguably faster” than the Xbox 360.
Simone,
Yeah, I screwed up. I went off my impressions (iPhone is fast! Xbox is slow!) and didn’t double-check the numbers. Kind of dumb, considering the disparity between integer and floating point performance on the iPhone.
OK, I thought it was weird that you were directly contradicting your own numbers.
Very cool that you got Geekbench to work on both the Xbox 360 and the iPhone, though.