Comments on: Snow Leopard Performance

By: SirYossi

SirYossi — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:58:19 +0000

OS X.5.8 is a bit faster on my G5 Dual 2.0 then is OS X.4.11 – but i think that has alot to do with OS X.5 being more to the 64bit machines verses the 32bit machines. But OS X.4.11 is only marginally faster on my modified Dual 1.3ghz G4 (AGP – Originally 500mzh) tower but OS X.5 is more stable on the G4 than OS X.4 is! OS X.5 actually runs better on my imac G4 700mhz than did OS X.4 – which i only use as a music server.

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By: mike

mike — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:53:27 +0000

I’ve heard there are some wildlife groups trying to get Apple to do more stuff with the actual S.L.’s lol. I don’t know- people are saying it’s good PR for Apple- they should jump on that.

By: mike

mike — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:53:17 +0000

I’ve heard there are some wildlife groups trying to get Apple to do more stuff with the actual S.L.’s lol. I don’t know- people are saying it’s good PR for Apple- they should jump on that.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:06:39 +0000

Do you think that the upgrade from Tiger is worth or not? b/c it seems that the bottom line is that Leopard was slower than Tiger, Snow Leopard is faster than Leopard, which implies that Tiger and Snow Leopard are, less or more, equally fast. There is any drastic improvement in Snow Leopard with respect to Tiger
Is this analysis correct?

By: John

John — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:55:05 +0000

McDave,

Geekbench is a multi-threaded benchmark and simulates the complex multi-threaded activity that's found in many modern applications. Benchmarks in both the "integer" and "floating point" sections run with multiple threads so improvements to any part of the operating system that deals with threads (like the scheduler) will result in increased scores in those sections.

By: John

John — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:52:55 +0000

The Snow Leopard build that ships on the retail disk is 10A432.

By: McDave

McDave — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:25:54 +0000

Can we please have some real apps performance stats? The core technology improvements won't show on benchmarks as they're more about complex multi-threaded activity not broken out performance of individual components.

McD