Several applications have been benchmarking we've seen, although they are mainly aimed at Windows. In the case of Mac OS XA good freeware for this task is Xbench, Which remains fully in force despite not having updated in a long time.
This is a program that allows us to measure the power of a Mac in several aspects, such as CPU, RAM, graphics capabilities, 2D and 3D (OpenGL) and hard drive.
In addition, result of obtained can be sent to web site So that we can then compare the performance of your computer with others, and even see how much faster is a new model in respect of which we possess.
