Leopard Graphics Update 1.0 Provides OpenGL Speed Boost

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Macs Only! conducted some performance testing on the Leopard Graphics Update and found substantial improvements in OpenGL performance, according to a report on Monday.

"One of our problems with Leopard was slow OpenGL graphics performance in our speed tests," Bill Fox reported. "I had just a short time in between trips to check OpenGL performance and it seems to have improved. The Cinebench 9.5 OpenGL Hardware Graphics test increased marginally from 4023 to 4122, the Xbench 1.3 OpenGL test increased a more substantially from 129 to 161 and, finally, the Quake III Arena UB test surged from 398 frames/sec to a whopping 686 frames/sec." The tests were on a MacBook Pro.

Most Mac users wonit notice the improvements in every day operations, but itis nice to see some concrete data about what the fix from Apple does, under the hood.

John Martellaro

John Martellaro

John Martellaro was born at an early age and began writing about computers soon after that. He is a former U.S. Air Force officer and has worked for NASA, White Sands Missile Range, Lockheed Martin Astronautics, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Apple. At Apple he worked as a Senior Marketing Manager, a Federal Account Executive and a High Performance Computing manager. His interests include skiing, chess, science fiction and astronomy. You can follow John on Twitter at twitter.com/jmartellaro.

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