Intel 950 Gma Drivers For Mac

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The first benches of the Intel Mac mini are out, and among them are some. As, the OpenGL performance of the integrated Intel GMA 950 graphics chipset leaves much to be desired: Mac mini G4 1.5 GHz Rendering (Single CPU): 152 Shading (CINEMA 4D): 159 Shading (OpenGL Software Lighting): 414 Shading (OpenGL Hardware Lighting): 506 OpenGL Speedup: 3.18 Mac mini Core Solo 1.5 GHz Rendering (Single CPU): 213 Shading (CINEMA 4D): 259 Shading (OpenGL Software Lighting): 885 Shading (OpenGL Hardware Lighting): 441 OpenGL Speedup: 3.41In the OpenGL Hardware Lighting test, the old G4 Mac mini with Radeon 9200 is actually 20% faster than the new Intel Mac mini. In fact, even the CPU-dependent OpenGL Software Lighting test on the Intel Mac mini is faster. While it's true that the Cinebench OpenGL test may not be representative of gaming performance, this does illustrate just how much of a limitation the new Intel Mac mini's integrated graphics can be. The good news is that the other benches confirm the great superiority of the Core Solo CPU over the G4. Clock-for-clock, Core Solo is 40% faster. Furthermore, we must not forget about the 1.66 GHz Core Duo Mac mini, which scores 471 in the CPU rendering test, over 3X as fast as the old 1.5 GHz G4 Mac mini.

Anonymous said. Omg, so you say that even the CPU-driven test is sometimes faster an HW GL?

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Did you even think about the fact that the Display Driver is not ready on Intel Macs? If the CPU is faster in this special test than it's only because the driver does not accelerate this specific function being used. Just wait for a new release. If you really wanted to talk about the real (!) performance of this GPU you should've run a benchmark on an windows based system because those drivers are ready.

Bad article!! I have been setting up Macbooks with Bootcamp and using the 'boot camp windows drivers disk' I have had no trouble till the latest intel950.

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Now after installing the windows drivers the screen goes blank. Has anyone else run into this? I found an intel driver from intels site that windows fusses at me 'the driver you are trying to install is older' but I did it anyway. I got some video just not very good and after the very next boot it went blank again. Any input would be helpful. TY Tom made4memac.