SA22C Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 I've got the following system: Asus P5K-E Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 (OC to 2.94 GHz) 5 GB OCZ Gold DDR2 800 MHz 8800 GT 512 MB (flashed with mac 8800 GT Rom) I've got Snow Leopard up and running with the standard DSDT generated by the patcher and the following kexts: ADI1988b (enables sound) fakesmc (newest version) JMicronATA NullCPUPowerManagement OpenHaltRestart PlatformUUID SleepEnabler VoodooPower Everything is running smoothly in either 64 or 32 bit (I'm in 32 bit presently because there is no Voodoo Power kext for 64 bit as of yet.) The problem is that my open GL performance is less than half of what I see in Leopard (According to XBench, anyhow. OpenMark shows a 15 percent drop.) Anyone else seeing poor nVidia performance in Snow Leo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyboy Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 I've got the following system: Asus P5K-E Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 (OC to 2.94 GHz) 5 GB OCZ Gold DDR2 800 MHz 8800 GT 512 MB (flashed with mac 8800 GT Rom) I've got Snow Leopard up and running with the standard DSDT generated by the patcher and the following kexts: ADI1988b (enables sound) fakesmc (newest version) JMicronATA NullCPUPowerManagement OpenHaltRestart PlatformUUID SleepEnabler VoodooPower Everything is running smoothly in either 64 or 32 bit (I'm in 32 bit presently because there is no Voodoo Power kext for 64 bit as of yet.) The problem is that my open GL performance is less than half of what I see in Leopard (According to XBench, anyhow. OpenMark shows a 15 percent drop.) Anyone else seeing poor nVidia performance in Snow Leo? Yes opengl spinnig squares score with xbench is kinda slow 88 i get and in leopard 180+ , but the system runs sweet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hchinasky Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 Same here with 9300m gs. Font rendering is much better in leopard. I don´t see fonts clear under snow leopard. Do you see any difference in fonts too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SA22C Posted August 24, 2009 Author Share Posted August 24, 2009 Same here with 9300m gs. Font rendering is much better in leopard. I don´t see fonts clear under snow leopard.Do you see any difference in fonts too? No, rendering in Snow looks great for me. It's also worth noting that the system feels responsive and snappy, it's just not performing well in the benchmarks. Since I don't game with OS X, it really doesn't matter in the end. I'd bet that MacPro owners are seeing the same problem with their 8800GT's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslieking Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 yes, the same issue. GeForce 8500GT 512MB (Xbench OpenGL Leopard: 180 / Xbench OpenGL Snow Leopard: 80). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyboy Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 Rendering is just fine tho and the fonts looks ok , just the opengl test in xbench is 100 or so fps slower lol to test it out i tried some off the osx scene demos and all ran excellent so the slow opengl score doesnt seem to bad overall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslieking Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 I think, xbench is too old. Try: http://www.realtech-vr.com/glview/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberdog ! Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 Me too. Test with GioFX OpenMark Launch the benchmark from the OpenMark Menu Waiting for the result after 9 FPS, open "OpenMark result.tga" file in the folder 10.5.8 ± 26000 10.6 ± 14000 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorcho Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 It's a problem with Snow Leopard, not your hacks. It seems as if OGL performance is mucked up, and CL is apparently spotty for ATI cards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
`Black Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 Same issue here (9600GT) and spaces is absolutely not smooth in SL. Hope Apple quickly releases updates... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h4ck1nt05h Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 I've noticed this as well (9800 GT). World of Warcraft performance is much worse than Leopard, and lines look much more jagged. No matter what I set the anti-aliasing on, it doesn't look like it's working. There is definitely something wrong with OpenGL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackosx Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 I have just tried the OpenGL Extensions Viewer link that zoliky posted. I loaded the app and used defaults settings and my SnowLeopard system posted higher scores than 10.5.8, apart from test 2.1. I am using an MSI 8800GT 512MB OC. EDIT: I have just run the same test again but with time with 10.6.1. There is a slight improvement in some tests and a slight loss in others, so an average no real change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberdog ! Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 A second test please ? Test with GioFX OpenMark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackosx Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 A second test please ? Test with GioFX OpenMark Yes I can try it but can you post the app as the download link doesn't work. I have tried here, here and here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberdog ! Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 this : http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15242/openmark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslieking Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 this : http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15242/openmark The download link is broken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch_de Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 FORGET XBench & OpenMark benches for 10.6 + 10.5 on newer Intel "Macs" !! Both are much to old and need to be updated. They are both very old compiled with very old OS X frameworks / very old GCC 3.x (UB bot not good optimized Intel code). Now we have GCC 4.x ! Only use the new + very valide OpenGLExtensionsviewer for Tests . To compare GPU speed differences between GPUs: OPTIONS: full screen, benchmark, higher resulution (at least 1280x800, the more the better), 32 Bit and 4* Multisampling (FSAA) gives: high gpu load = gpu limits bench results = less cpu+driver dependend bench results To compare driver speed differences on same GPU: OPTIONS: full screen, benchmark, lower resulution (less than 800x600), 32 Bit no Multisamling gives: less/moderate gpu load = CPU(drivers) + gpu limits bench results = much cpu+driver dependend benhc results Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jinnggoff Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 yes thats right Mitch_de, I did a test with OpenglExtensionsviewer... and the results are not loss any performance in SL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberdog ! Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 FORGET XBench & OpenMark benches for 10.6 + 10.5 on newer Intel "Macs" !!Both are much to old and need to be updated. They are both very old compiled with very old OS X frameworks / very old GCC 3.x (UB bot not good optimized Intel code). Now we have GCC 4.x ! Only use the new + very valide OpenGLExtensionsviewer for Tests . To compare GPU speed differences between GPUs: OPTIONS: full screen, benchmark, higher resulution (at least 1280x800, the more the better), 32 Bit and 4* Multisampling (FSAA) gives: high gpu load = gpu limits bench results = less cpu+driver dependend bench results To compare driver speed differences on same GPU: OPTIONS: full screen, benchmark, lower resulution (less than 800x600), 32 Bit no Multisamling gives: less/moderate gpu load = CPU(drivers) + gpu limits bench results = much cpu+driver dependend benhc results Thank you !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
`Black Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 Did the OpenGLExtensionsviewer test with my 9600GT in 1920x1200 4xAA / 16xAF ... Scores are better in Leopard (GL 1.1 to 2.0 ~700fps in 10.5.8, ~600fps in SL, GL 2.1 is the same) but not much so the performance is ok. The slow spaces seems to be a problem with beamsync as I have only 10fps with beamsync, in leopard it's 50-60fps... without beamsync >100. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitmac Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 Did the tests as mentioned above but failed 3.0. How come? 9800 GT using efi strings on SL 550 frames per sec Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KariNeko Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 Did the tests as mentioned above but failed 3.0. How come? I Don't remember who I read today but he/she said that Snow Lepard is missing the frameworks for OpenGL 3.0 support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberdog ! Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 problem exist http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/29/ben....snow.leopards/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslieking Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 problem exist http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/29/ben....snow.leopards/ thanks for the link! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colorfuel Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 I've just checked Sims 3 under Snow Leopard and its git horrible performance. I hope Apple soon gets those Nvidia drivers better. Maybe its possible to use the nvidia drivers from 10.5.7 under 32 bit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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