Early Mac Pro 2008 vs. the Macbeast: Benchmarked
As promised, here are some benchmarks, comparing the early 2008 Mac Pro with my new custom PC build, dubbed The MacBeast.
Benchmarks were taken with GeekBench3 from PrimateLabs. First up, the early 2008 Mac Pro:
Next up are the benchmarks for The MacBeast:
Integer scores for the early 2008 Mac Pro:
Single-core: 1891
Multi-Core: 13941
Integer scores for the Macbeast:
Single-core: 3809
Multi-Core: 12935
The MacBeast is twice as fast for single core computations and slightly slower than the early 2008 Mac Pro in multi-core performance.
Floating point scores for the early 2008 Mac Pro:
Single-core: 1889
Multi-Core: 14592
Floating point scores for the MacBeast:
Single-core: 3772
Multi-Core: 14169
Floating point computations show a similar result.
Memory scores for the early 2008 Mac Pro:
Single-core: 819
Multi-Core: 1686
Memory scores for the MacBeast:
Single-core: 2964
Multi-Core: 3107
Memory speed is where the MacBeast trounces the early 2008 Mac Pro, with an almost 4 fold increase in speed for single core and a nearly 2 fold increase for multi-core. What’s most surprising to me is how well the early 2008 Mac Pro holds up, after all these years.
-Krishna
Josh
September 3, 2015 at 9:43 pmI have really enjoyed reading about your hackintosh adventure. I am looking at purchasing a Yiynova monitor and need to purchase/build a computer to go with it. I was looking into hack builds and stumbled into your site. Thanks for the information and tips!
I’m interested to hear what you would do differently if you were starting over from scratch.
Krishna
September 3, 2015 at 9:47 pmThanks, Josh! Great question. TonyMacX86’s site really helped me with their excellent walk-throughs. I’m super happy with this build. I think if I had to do things differently, I might spring for an i7 instead of an i5. The Thermaltake case is really easy to work on and I’m very happy with the components I’ve picked.