The Quadra 700 uses a 25 MHz 68040 CPU. Drive is a 700 MB
Apple-branded IBM DSAS-3720 formatted with Apple HD SC Setup. System
7.6.1 was installed on the drive. The computer had 20 MB of RAM and
VRAM was upgraded from the stock 512 KB to 1 MB.
The drive was not tested with Norton and optimized before
benchmarking.
Remember that benchmarks are arbitrary. They measure certain types
of performance that may or may not reflect the way you work.
Speedometer 3.06
The system was tested on 13 March 2001 using System 7.6.1 and the
usual complement of control panels and extensions. Computer attached to
a 14" color monitor and tested in 8-bit video mode (other modes caused
Speedometer to crash). Results are relative to a Mac SE or Classic,
which rates 1.0. Numbers rounded off to two decimal places.
The first set of numbers compares performance at different cache
settings. This system cannot use a cache smaller than 96KB.
cache CPU graphics disk math
128KB 16.22 17.58 4.71 103.0
256KB 16.37 17.51 5.16 103.0
The cache setting should have little influence on non-disk tests,
which these numbers bear out. With this particular setup, cache size
makes no appreciable difference.
PowerPC Upgrade
This Quadra 700 came with Apple's Power Mac Upgrade
Card, which runs a PowerPC 601 at twice CPU speed. The card has a
1 MB level 2 cache and runs at 50 MHz in the Q700.
cache CPU graphics disk math
128KB 6.84 20.45 4.74 76.6
256KB 6.84 20.45 4.77 76.6
Results are virtually identical at both cache settings. Note that
Speedometer 3 is not compiled for the PowerPC processor, so some
results, particularly the CPU score, are lower than with the original
68040 CPU. Much more impressive and meaningful results were obtained
with Speedometer 4, which has PPC code.
Speedometer 4.02
The system was tested on 3 November 1998 under 13 March 2001 using
System 7.6.1 and the usual complement of control panels and extensions.
Computer attached to a 14" color monitor and tested in 8-bit video
mode. Results are relative to a Quadra 605, which rates 1.0. Numbers
rounded off to two decimal places.
These numbers compare performance at different cache settings. This
system cannot use a cache smaller than 96KB.
cache CPU graphics disk math
128KB 0.89 1.00 1.89 14.97
256KB 0.89 0.99 2.00 14.98
The cache setting should have little influence on non-disk tests,
which these numbers bear out. As above, with this particular setup,
cache size makes no appreciable difference, except that the disk score
is a bit higher with a 256 KB cache.
PowerPC Upgrade
This Quadra 700 came with Apple's Power Mac Upgrade
Card, which runs a PowerPC 601 at twice CPU speed. The card has a
1 MB level 2 cache and runs at 50 MHz in the Q700.
cache CPU graphics disk math
128KB 2.59 1.28 1.83 86.31
256KB 2.59 1.27 1.84 86.41
As with Speedometer 3, results are virtually identical at both cache
settings.
Speedometer 4 can run in either PowerPC or 68k mode. Running in 68k
mode dropped CPU performance from 2.59 to 0.44 - about half the
performance of the 68040 CPU. However, if you're not running PowerPC
programs, there's really no point to the upgrade, which is especially
impressive on the CPU and math scores, offering 2.9 and 5.8 times the
performance of the 68040 processor.
Go to the Quadra
700 profile.
