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OT: Mac Pro and A.E. -RepostPosted by Aaron Zander
as requested
So, we just got 29 mac pro's at the digital lab at my school, and i decided to do a little test. Here are the contenders: 1 12" Power Book G4 Processors 1.5ghz PowerPC G4 Memory 1.25GB DDR SDRAM Mac OS X 10.4.6 Graphics Card-GeForce FX Go5200 w/ 64mb of Vram 2 Power Mac G5 Processor Dual 2 GHz Power PC G5 Memory 1GB DDR SDRAM Mac OS X 10.4.7 ATI Radeon 9600 XT w/ 128mb of VRAM 3 Mac Pro Processor 2 x 2 GHz Dual Core Intel Xeon Memory 1 gb 667 MHZ DDR2 FB DImm Mac OS X 10.4.7 NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT w/ 256 MB of VRam All are running After Effects 7.0 (the Mac Pro Running under Rosetta) I chose an AEP from anvils Free Anvil set (specifically the butterfly Render under customshapes) All are on standard settings. But the render settings were set to RGB + Alpha with Caps Lock DOWN to stop the frame from cycling speeding up renders. The whole thing was 5 seconds Flat The times ended up like this: In First Place with a time of 3 min. 46 seconds was the Power Mac G5 In Second Place with a time of 7 min 11 Seconds is the Power mac g4 (my Little laptop) And in a slow third is the Mac Pro running rosetta at 8 Min and 3 Seconds Any Further Details can be inquired upon, Keep in mind these mac Pro's as based out, i.e they are as low as you can go in the intel tower chain Further tests coming in several other programs -Aaron Zander P.S. this is not saying the mac pro is slow, this is simply a test to show the effects of rosseta on A.E. things will change after the universal version of after effects.
Thanks Aaron if you could post any other future test results/comparisons on this article it would be appreciated.
Cheers man Ben For instant answers to more than one hundred common FCP questions, check out the LAFCPUG FAQ Wiki here : [www.lafcpug.org]
IMHO, if you want serious professional benchmark test results, go to [www.barefeats.com]. Aaron's school machines do not have enough RAM in them to run effective tests. Barefeats get loaded machines to test. You can write Barefeats with test suggestions @ Rob-ART Morgan <rob-art@barefeats.com>. Rob's a great guy
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