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External gear pumps and motors are robust and low cost positive displacement machines and are widely used in industrial and mobile applications. Nowadays however, optimal global efficiency represents a more crucial aspect to be considered when designing a hydraulic machine. For this reason, it becomes a primary necessity to investigate the phenomena which determine and affect the hydraulic machine total efficiency. In this work, the volumetric efficiency dependence on the operating speed and delivery pressure of external gear pumps is investigated by means of a mathematical model already presented in a previous paper and the results obtained are compared with experimental data. First of all, the mathematical model is briefly presented; then the predicted results are discussed considering the influence of the pump operating conditions.