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MPG Table of Contents   Page 1: Mac Pro Westmere Introduction Page 2: Which Mac Pro CPU for Photography, Video, Sound? Page 3: Mac Pro Westmere Clock Speed, Cores, and Cache Page 4: When More Is Less: Photoshop Slower With 12 Cores Than 6 Page 5: Mac Pro Westmere Estimating CPU Performance Page 6: Mac Pro Westmere Hits and Misses Page 7: Mac Pro Westmere Ordering Tips: What to Get and What to Skip Page 8: Mac Pro Westmere Solid State Drive Option Page 9: Mac Pro Westmere How Much Memory and Where to Buy Page 10: Mac Pro Westmere Value Compared to Quad-Core iMac Page 11: Mac Pro Westmere Internal SATA Bandwidth Page 12: Mac Pro Westmere Test Machine Configuration Page 13: Mac Pro Westmere Photoshop Performance: diglloydSpeed1 Page 14: Mac Pro Westmere Photoshop Performance: diglloydMedium Page 15: Mac Pro Westmere Photoshop Performance: diglloydHuge Page 16: Mac Pro Westmere Photoshop CS5 Panorama (Auto Align and Auto Blend) Page 17: Mac Pro Westmere Digital Camera RAW File Processing Speed (Bibble Pro) Page 18: Mac Pro Westmere RAW-file Import with Adobe Lightroom 3 Page 19: Mac Pro Westmere RAW-file Import with PhaseONE CaptureONE Page 20: Mac Pro Westmere RAW-file Import with Apple Aperture 3 Page 21: Mac Pro Westmere RAW-file Processing with Canon Digital Photo Professional Page 22: Mac Pro Westmere RAW-file Processing with Nikon Capture NX2 Page 23: Mac Pro Westmere Performance with PhotoZoom Pro Page 24: Mac Pro Westmere Performance with Helicon Focus Page 25: Mac Pro Westmere Performance with PTGui Pro Page 26: Mac Pro Westmere XCode C++ Build Page 27: Mac Pro Westmere Real World Memory Bandwidth Page 28: Mac Pro Westmere Performance with Apple Logic Studio Page 29: Mac Pro Westmere Performance with Adobe After Effects Page 30: Mac Pro Westmere Performance with Handbrake Video Encoding Page 31: Mac Pro Westmere Cinebench CPU and GPU Page 32: Mac Pro Westmere Conclusions

Mac Pro Westmere XCode C++ Build

This test builds diglloydTools (C++) using an Automator script.

Developers using Apple XCode can rejoice at shorter build times, but XCode does not scale perfectly, even with a triple-SSD RAID=0 stripe. Times shown are second build, a hair faster than the first build.

CPU usage is near the max for most of the build, but there is some kind of serialization part-way through, which reduces the 12-core advantage.