Cross platform benchmark util?

[daveleau]

Is there a cross-platform benchmarking utility that tests both Win9x and Mac OS 9 with the same criteria? I want to settle a bet with a friend and put my machine up against his G4 Mac. I may lose but I have to settle it. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif
Thanks
Dave

[neo_otyugh]

what about rc5??? you could run it on both machines and see which can run blocks through faster...just a suggestion...

[daveleau]

Interesting idea. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif That would work and we could see which had more raw processing power. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif Thanks. That should take care of the biggest debates we have had.

Are there any all or multi purpose benchmarks?

Dave

[daveleau]

Also is there any real difference between the two clients in RC5? Will they be comparable for comparable power? Or is one more efficient or more developed than the other?
Thanks
Dave

[Brydon]

I thought the G4 blew away everything in RC5 so it wouldn't be very fair.

[falcompsx]

Macs suck, for one main reason, lack of software support, other reasons include, slow(for gaming), and expensive, not to mention the lack of overclocking. I'm just a hardcore PC(Intel mainly) guy, so just thought i'd throw my two cents in.

Macs are good at graphic processing etc... though

[otheos]

Macs are not bad, just different. They do overclock! as for software support, you won't believe it.

Back to the cross platform thing, considering my p90 running linux does a SETI unit in 32 hours and running windows it does the same unit in 80 hours, I think you can't even compare same PC's running different OS's. The iMac 400 does a unit in 5 hours!! while my Ultrasparc 3 333Mhz with 2MB on die cache does it in 6 hours (and don't hear anyone saying the SUN is slower than the iMac, I just remind you it takes an Athlon 650 to beat this FPU -double MHz- and no intel can beat it).

Conclusion: I don't think there is a way unless you run your own code on both machines. A simple C number cruncher NOT optimised will do.