PC Vs Mac perfomrance

Unity Engine
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ok still running on the trial pretty darned impressed so far but…
I’ve gottent a test project built and published to the web to do a performance comparison between the mac the pc.

now I’ve not gone to any lengths implementing an fps counter or nething but my initial runs are showing me a distinct difference in the performance.
surprisingly the mac is coming out much faster than the pc
the 2 systems
mac 2ghz Intel core 2 duo 1 GB of ram (basically the entry level mac)
whatever the new Imacs have for a video card

the pc is
intel core due @ 2.4 Ghz 2 Gb of ram
NVIDIA GEForce 7600 GT

the pc is a brand spanking new build so its pretty fresh in most respects

does anyone know if or what performance comparisons anyone has already been done between windows mac platforms

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We have found that in our benchmarks Unity runs around 10-20% faster on Windows machines in general. This is due Direct-X being faster on Windows than OpenGL. Those benchmarks were primarily graphics tests of course. CPU heavy scenes had pretty much the exact same performance.

When you compare mac / windows performance on graphics heavy scenes, a fair comparison obviously only comes about if you use the same graphics cards in the different machines.