iMac8,1 iMac12,1
Geekbench 2 Score 7824 5842

System Information

iMac8,1 iMac12,1
Operating System Mac OS X 10.8 (Build 12A269) Mac OS X 10.8.5 (Build 12F45)
Model iMac8,1 iMac12,1
Processor Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.22 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores
AMD Opteron 3350 HE @ 3.36 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11 AuthenticAMD Family 21 Model 2 Stepping 0
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 16 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 64 KB x 4
L2 Cache 4096 KB x 2 2048 KB x 2
L3 Cache 0 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F227BEC8 1.3 Apple Inc. Mac-942B5BF58194151B x.x
BIOS Apple Inc. IM81.88Z.00C1.B00.0803051705 Apple Inc. IM121.88Z.0047.B00.1102091756
Memory 8.00 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM 4.00 GB 0 MHz RAM

Integer Performance

iMac8,1 iMac12,1
Integer 7706 5269
Blowfish
single-core scalar
2097 1914
Blowfish
multi-core scalar
8877 8284
Text Compress
single-core scalar
2931 2228
Text Compress
multi-core scalar
11304 7332
Text Decompress
single-core scalar
2502 2338
Text Decompress
multi-core scalar
10224 8543
Image Compress
single-core scalar
2795 2090
Image Compress
multi-core scalar
10912 6791
Image Decompress
single-core scalar
2878 1818
Image Decompress
multi-core scalar
10802 6356
Lua
single-core scalar
5562 3422
Lua
multi-core scalar
21597 12118

Floating Point Performance

iMac8,1 iMac12,1
Floating Point 11691 8532
Mandelbrot
single-core scalar
2408 2344
Mandelbrot
multi-core scalar
9754 9002
Dot Product
single-core scalar
4384 2776
Dot Product
single-core vector
3407 4454
Dot Product
multi-core scalar
18513 11687
Dot Product
multi-core vector
15649 17112
LU Decomposition
single-core scalar
1909 1043
LU Decomposition
multi-core scalar
6953 3904
Primality Test
single-core scalar
6212 2798
Primality Test
multi-core scalar
18850 8344
Sharpen Image
single-core scalar
6903 5726
Sharpen Image
multi-core scalar
27758 22026
Blur Image
single-core scalar
8168 6064
Blur Image
multi-core scalar
32818 22170

Memory Performance

iMac8,1 iMac12,1
Memory 3561 3425
Read Sequential
single-core scalar
4327 4379
Write Sequential
single-core scalar
3968 5520
Stdlib Allocate
single-core scalar
3130 2762
Stdlib Write
single-core scalar
3267 2043
Stdlib Copy
single-core scalar
3116 2421

Stream Performance

iMac8,1 iMac12,1
Stream 3231 3268
Stream Copy
single-core scalar
3085 3487
Stream Copy
single-core vector
3312 3803
Stream Scale
single-core scalar
3270 3648
Stream Scale
single-core vector
3177 3578
Stream Add
single-core scalar
3333 2300
Stream Add
single-core vector
3470 4011
Stream Triad
single-core scalar
3644 2344
Stream Triad
single-core vector
2559 2977