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Speedometer 4.02 Overview

Where possible, the following benchmarks were generated using Speedometer 4.02 with System 7.5.5 and minimal extensions, an Apple branded hard drive, and a 64 KB disk cache. Data is taken from pages listed on the left.

Speedometer 4 does not run on 68000-based Macs.

model          CPU   graphics  disk    math     processor 
Mac II         0.22    0.19    0.53    0.82   16 MHz 68020
Classic II     0.25    0.15    0.90    0.78   16 MHz 68030
SE/30          0.26    0.16    0.70    0.98   16 MHz 68030
IIcx           0.26    0.25    0.77    0.96   16 MHz 68030
Color Classic+ 0.25    0.23    0.89    1.94   16 MHz 68030
IIsi           0.24    0.31    0.80    0.55   20 MHz 68030
IIsi*          0.32    0.32    0.85    0.83   20 MHz 68030
IIci           0.38    0.39    1.63    1.24   25 MHz 68030
IIci, cache    0.40    0.46    1.69    1.37   25 MHz 68030
PB 170         0.40    0.21    0.69    3.15   25 MHz 68030
LC III         0.43    0.38    0.85    1.50   25 MHz 68030
IIfx           0.71    0.45    0.74    2.97   40 MHz 68030
Co. Cl. 040++  0.82    0.47    0.88    4.19   25 MHz 68040
C/Q 660av      0.89    1.02    1.44   14.99   25 MHz 68040
Quadra 605     0.88    1.00    1.48    4.69   25 MHz LC040
Quadra 605     0.88    1.00    1.48   14.82   25 MHz 68040
IIci, 040      1.30    1.27    1.71   10.04   40 MHz 68040
PB 540         1.17    0.64    0.84    5.60   33 MHz LC040
PB 540C        1.18    0.75    0.92    6.25   33 MHz LC040
Quadra 700     0.89    1.00    1.89   14.97   25 MHz 68040
Q 700/PPC      2.59    1.28    1.84   86.31   50 MHz 601  
Quadra 630     1.18    1.11    2.03   19.86   33 MHz 68040
Quadra 650     1.19    1.34    1.89   20.01   33 MHz 68040
Quadra 950     1.19    1.29    2.85   20.02   33 MHz 68040
Q 950/PPC      3.48    1.63    2.42  115.2    66 MHz 601  
6100/60        3.11    1.44    1.23  106.3    60 MHz 601  
6100/66        3.40    1.68    1.54  116.5    66 MHz 601  
6100/66 L2#    3.43    2.14    1.73  118.4    66 MHz 601# 
UMAX J700     11.87    n/a**   2.50  531.9   180 MHz 604e 
iMac Rev. B   15.22    n/a**   2.52  644.7   233 MHz G3   
P-Mac G3/266  21.05    n/a**   3.54  745.5   266 MHz G3   
S900/G3-333## 25.17    n/a**   2.95  891.1   180 MHz 604e 
FW iBook      28.25    n/a**   3.24 1016.5   366 MHz G3e  
P-Mac G3/350  23.1     n/a**   4.91  976.2   350 MHz G3   
PB G4/400     30.61    n/a**   3.35 1124.6   400 MHz G4   

Other models will be added as they are benchmarked.

 + Tested with 16 MHz 68882 math coprocessor.
++ Tested with Sonnet Presto 68LC040 accelerator.
 * Tested with IIsi-RAM-Muncher.
** Graphics test cannot run on Power Macs, since they do not support 1-, 2-, or 4-bit video.
# with 256 MB L2 cache
## SuperMac S900 with Newer Tech G3/333 uprade running at 330 MHz, 1 MB backside cache running at 220 MHz

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