Windows XP bests OS X in RIA test on Intel
A benchmark test for rich internet application (RIA) frameworks claims Apple's OS X lags Microsoft's Windows XP on Intel when rendering HTML, being just over half as fast. Sean Christmann, an experience architect at user interface specialist EffectiveUI, released the GUIMark benchmark following concerns over the lack of a proper …
Just did the HTML testy-thingy on me old iMac Core 1 Duo 2.0 GHz RadeonX1600, OS X 10.4.11
Opera 9.26 : 13 fps
FireFox 2.0.0.12 : 7-8 fps
Safari 3.1.1 : 13 fps
And on me Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz Radeon HD2400 Pro XP sp3 (32bit OS)
IE 6 : 20 fps
Firefox 2.0.0.14 : 20 fps
Safari 3.1 : erratic between 14-24 centered around 17 fps
But on the same PC running UBUNTU 7 (64bit OS)
Firefox 2.0.0.12 : 10 fps
So that's a fact, maintaining UI consistency across different fields displaying the same Object comes at an overhead in COCOA and a F5 key stroke on Windoze ...
But is this test meaningful? Looking at Ubuntu, I'd be tempted to say no.
Anybody with set of figures on a G5 ???
>Would have been more of an ass kick, vista is much much faster >than XP at rendering to screen and takes even more advantage of >hardware than XP.
Um, NOT! - Vista on my girlfriends brand new laptop takes so long to do anything you can actually go make a coffee while you wait for it to finish almost any mundane task.
Oh the Apple front - I can report that my new Mac Pro (dual quad-core 3ghz Xeon with Nvidia 8500 512Mb card) - feels a whole lot slower in general than I thought a machine of this spec running a Unix based OS would be ... It seems that MacOS-X doing the same as wasteful bullshit as Vista - it loads heaps of crap in the background, consuming all spare RAM, making the machine do lots of unnecessary swapping.
(Oh I forgot - you're supposed to kit these things out with 32gigs of Steve'os stupidly expensive ECC memory!)
Just for the sake of a non-argument I unearthed me Clamshell G3 366, OS X 10.3.9
Safari 1.3.2 : 2.5 fps
That shows a linear scalability 13 fps / 2.0 GHz * 366 MHz = 2.379 fps (theoretical)
Complete b0ll*cks of course ... but cool 'ey!? IE users are now reasured, they are using the fastest browser.
