Posted on Friday, August 27 2010 @ 3:32 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Yesterday we looked at the performance of Apple's "Snow
Leopard Graphics Update" for Mac OS X 10.6.4 designed to enhance both
the image quality and rendering performance for OpenGL games and
applications. For testing their graphics update we benchmarked Mac OS X
10.6.2, 10.6.3, 10.6.4, and 10.6.4 with the Snow Leopard Graphics Update
1.0 installed and benchmarked the Apple OpenGL performance against
Ubuntu Linux. The results were mixed showing Apple still has room to
optimize their OpenGL stack compared to NVIDIA's Linux implementation
and in not all areas did this package update result in performance
enhancements. After we finished that OpenGL comparison, we decided to
see how the OpenCL performance compares between Mac OS X 10.6.4 and
Ubuntu Linux 10.04.1 LTS. We tested the Open Computing Language on both
the Intel Core 2 Duo CPU and on the NVIDIA GPU.
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