[PyMOL] Re: [ccp4bb]: Mac Intel Benchmarks

[Ulrich B. <ulr...@ib...>]

Hi Warren,

is this a stereo system? This would be very cheap, a quadro card costst 
usually more.

Cheers,

Ulrich

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From: "Warren DeLano" <wa...@de...>
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Subject: [ccp4bb]: Mac Intel Benchmarks


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> Performance enthusiasts:
>
> Having finished the MacPyMOL universal binary (http://delsci.com/pre), I
> couldn't resist running some benchmarks in order see whether Apple's
> performance claims hold up with respect to PyMOL.
>
> It seems they do:  At equal Ghz, the iMac Core Duo provides 170% the
> graphics performance of the old iMac G5, 141% of the single-threaded CPU
> performance, and 239% of the multi-threaded rendering performance.
>
> Even more impressive is how well this $1,300 all-in-one system performs
> in comparison to a traditional $5,000 Linux Opteron workstation.  The
> iMac Core Duo provides 30% greater graphics performance than my Quadro
> FX 3000-equipped dual Opteron and is within 10% in terms of raw PyMOL
> number crunching power (surface calculation and ray tracing).
>
> Wow.
>
> So with respect to PyMOL, Intel-based Macs have at least a 2-3X better
> price/performance ratio over dual-CPU Opteron workstations (at least
> from a commercial vendor like Sun).  If you don't need 64-bit computing,
> these new iMacs are a solid choice for molecular visualization with
> PyMOL.
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> Raw data here:  http://delsci.com/bench
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> Machine tested on left:
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> Cheers,
> Warren
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