Monkey D. Luffy Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Hi, I have a Sony Vaio CR sereis laptop that has 965 Chipset and GMA X3100. I've been using this for a long time and was happy with it, since almost everything is working. Anyway, earlier this day, I installed OSX in my friends older toshiba A135 laptop. It has GMA950 and I noticed a big difference when hovering the dock (magnification), and minimizing windows. It is way smoother than my X3100. Out of curiosity, I ran Xbench to his system and was shocked with the results. His QuartsGL test in spinning squares hits 190+ Frames/sec. I ran a test in mine, it got 23+ .. the difference is tooooo big. How come? I've tried installing different drivers in my X3100. Tried EFI string only - Tried Stock 10.5.5/10.5.6/10.5.7 gma kext - Tried hacked kext - Tried Natit and the test results are all the same. Can anyone post their GMA X3100 Xbench 1.3 and see if we have the same? I read in some article that even a real mac that has X3100 has 20+ fps in spinning frames. This is my QuartGL Xbench result (CPU/HDD test not included) Quartz Graphics Test 92.42 Line 136.66 9.10 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 56.29 16.80 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 100.74 8.21 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 95.01 2.40 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 116.72 7.30 Kchars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 18.56 Spinning Squares 18.56 23.54 frames/sec User Interface Test 56.46 Elements 56.46 259.11 refresh/sec It would be better if there is a fix for this - or maybe I did something wrong - or is this normal? Cheers! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/174963-gma-x3100-has-low-xbench-scores-in-quartsgl/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
booger_sniffer5000 Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Hi, I have a Sony Vaio CR sereis laptop that has 965 Chipset and GMA X3100. I've been using this for a long time and was happy with it, since almost everything is working. Anyway, earlier this day, I installed OSX in my friends older toshiba A135 laptop. It has GMA950 and I noticed a big difference when hovering the dock (magnification), and minimizing windows. It is way smoother than my X3100. Out of curiosity, I ran Xbench to his system and was shocked with the results. His QuartsGL test in spinning squares hits 190+ Frames/sec. I ran a test in mine, it got 23+ .. the difference is tooooo big. How come? I've tried installing different drivers in my X3100. Tried EFI string only - Tried Stock 10.5.5/10.5.6/10.5.7 gma kext - Tried hacked kext - Tried Natit and the test results are all the same. Can anyone post their GMA X3100 Xbench 1.3 and see if we have the same? I read in some article that even a real mac that has X3100 has 20+ fps in spinning frames. This is my QuartGL Xbench result (CPU/HDD test not included) Quartz Graphics Test 92.42 Line 136.66 9.10 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 56.29 16.80 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 100.74 8.21 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 95.01 2.40 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 116.72 7.30 Kchars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 18.56 Spinning Squares 18.56 23.54 frames/sec User Interface Test 56.46 Elements 56.46 259.11 refresh/sec It would be better if there is a fix for this - or maybe I did something wrong - or is this normal? Cheers! It's normal, the drivers are crappy. Even real MacBooks with the X3100 get lower scores than MacBooks with the GMA 950. EDIT: I have the same series laptop hehe Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/174963-gma-x3100-has-low-xbench-scores-in-quartsgl/#findComment-1200507 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey D. Luffy Posted July 15, 2009 Author Share Posted July 15, 2009 I guess I have to live with it. This is just sad. I can't believe that I just knew today. Oh well. Thanks for the info! Hoping that Apple makes newer/better drivers. Do Snow Leopard have the same results? Anybody tried it on SL? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/174963-gma-x3100-has-low-xbench-scores-in-quartsgl/#findComment-1200512 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sm01 Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 I noticed fairly slugging effects as well with my X3100. Here are the result from Xbench that I just took: I have a 2GHz Core 2 Duo with 4GB of RAM, so I guess that's what helped me scores versus yours. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/174963-gma-x3100-has-low-xbench-scores-in-quartsgl/#findComment-1219975 Share on other sites More sharing options...
riws Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 C2D 2Ghz, 4GB System Info Xbench Version 1.3 System Version 10.6 (10A421a) Physical RAM 4096 MB Model MacBook3,1 Drive Type WDC WD2500BEVS-22UST0 Quartz Graphics Test 184.25 Line 141.53 9.42 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 184.84 55.19 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 157.78 12.86 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 161.61 4.08 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 468.34 29.30 Kchars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 23.50 Spinning Squares 23.50 29.81 frames/sec User Interface Test 196.65 Elements 196.65 902.50 refresh/sec Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/174963-gma-x3100-has-low-xbench-scores-in-quartsgl/#findComment-1220053 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sm01 Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 C2D 2Ghz, 4GB System Info Xbench Version 1.3 System Version 10.6 (10A421a) Physical RAM 4096 MB Model MacBook3,1 Drive Type WDC WD2500BEVS-22UST0 Quartz Graphics Test 184.25 Line 141.53 9.42 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 184.84 55.19 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 157.78 12.86 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 161.61 4.08 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 468.34 29.30 Kchars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 23.50 Spinning Squares 23.50 29.81 frames/sec User Interface Test 196.65 Elements 196.65 902.50 refresh/sec Was that on Snow Leopard? Anyway, I just installed the package from here: http://www.infinitemac.com/f36/intel-gma-x...x-10-5-7-t3373/ Here are my Xbench results (they're a little better). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/174963-gma-x3100-has-low-xbench-scores-in-quartsgl/#findComment-1220426 Share on other sites More sharing options...
riws Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 Yeah, on Snow. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/174963-gma-x3100-has-low-xbench-scores-in-quartsgl/#findComment-1220570 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sm01 Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 Did you use any special drivers? Those scores are considerably better than all of ours... Maybe Snow Leopard has better X3100 drivers? I'm tempted to try it out... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/174963-gma-x3100-has-low-xbench-scores-in-quartsgl/#findComment-1220592 Share on other sites More sharing options...
riws Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 Nope, just vanilla drivers. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/174963-gma-x3100-has-low-xbench-scores-in-quartsgl/#findComment-1220598 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sm01 Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 So you didn't install any custom X3100 drivers? Are you getting QE/CI/resolution change? Mine is working out of the box. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/174963-gma-x3100-has-low-xbench-scores-in-quartsgl/#findComment-1220600 Share on other sites More sharing options...
riws Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 Nope, everything works fine without any extras. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/174963-gma-x3100-has-low-xbench-scores-in-quartsgl/#findComment-1220605 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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