The improvement in the graphics scores of the built-in video reflect observations previously made by Mike Breeden and others. The built-in graphics system performance is directly tied to CPU speed and thus benefits relatively more than that of dedicated graphics cards. In actual use, however some features of the built- in graphics did not seem as fast as the Xclaim VR, particularly scrolling text documents and web browser windows. Benchmarks for the 4X CD were nearly identical in the old and new configuration. A comparison table with various times to complete tasks is shown below.
Results are times except where noted otherwise.
Applications launched quicker and documents opened significantly faster. Scrolling documents, web pages etc. was about twice as fast as originally. All operations in the Finder were faster. File sharing with an iMac via ethernet was about 1.3 to 1.5 times faster. Printing via DeskWriter 550c also improved by a modest amount.