The graphs below represent a performance comparison between different Mac and Mac Clone models that are now discontinued or were released some time ago. Testing was done using MacBench 3.0 . MacBench profiles popular software programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Word 6.0 and QuarkXpress among a variety of others and applies these profiles to the various subsystems being tested. See this description of what MacBench tests and how.
Longer bars equals faster performance.
All machines except the Quadra 950 were tested with 96K of disk cache. The Quadra 950 was tested with 768K of disk cache. It is important to keep these differences in mind when assessing and comparing Disk Mix and Publishing Disk Mix scores.