iMac (Mid 2007) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Geekbench 2 Score 3603 6867

System Information

iMac (Mid 2007) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Build 10K549) Mac OS X 10.8.3 (Build 12D78)
Model iMac (Mid 2007) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Processor Intel Core 2 Extreme X7900 @ 2.80 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores
Intel Core i5-3210M @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 4096 KB 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 0 KB 3072 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F42386C8 PVT Apple Inc. Mac-031AEE4D24BFF0B1 Macmini6,1
BIOS Apple Inc. IM71.88Z.007A.B03.0803051705 Apple Inc. MM61.88Z.0106.B03.1211161202
Memory 4.00 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Integer Performance

iMac (Mid 2007) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Integer 3038 4946
Blowfish
single-core scalar
1677 2289
Blowfish
multi-core scalar
3747 7569
Text Compress
single-core scalar
2174 2687
Text Compress
multi-core scalar
3833 6847
Text Decompress
single-core scalar
1954 2961
Text Decompress
multi-core scalar
3680 7633
Image Compress
single-core scalar
1991 2246
Image Compress
multi-core scalar
3643 5997
Image Decompress
single-core scalar
1711 2297
Image Decompress
multi-core scalar
3196 5249
Lua
single-core scalar
3044 4161
Lua
multi-core scalar
5815 9418

Floating Point Performance

iMac (Mid 2007) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Floating Point 5349 9082
Mandelbrot
single-core scalar
2088 2947
Mandelbrot
multi-core scalar
3911 10258
Dot Product
single-core scalar
3814 4177
Dot Product
single-core vector
3056 6338
Dot Product
multi-core scalar
7253 11339
Dot Product
multi-core vector
6350 13881
LU Decomposition
single-core scalar
777 1404
LU Decomposition
multi-core scalar
1341 2682
Primality Test
single-core scalar
4391 6408
Primality Test
multi-core scalar
6293 12121
Sharpen Image
single-core scalar
5823 6020
Sharpen Image
multi-core scalar
10111 18562
Blur Image
single-core scalar
7013 7060
Blur Image
multi-core scalar
12671 23960

Memory Performance

iMac (Mid 2007) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Memory 2352 6421
Read Sequential
single-core scalar
3224 7382
Write Sequential
single-core scalar
2515 10545
Stdlib Allocate
single-core scalar
2112 4090
Stdlib Write
single-core scalar
1864 4437
Stdlib Copy
single-core scalar
2047 5653

Stream Performance

iMac (Mid 2007) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Stream 1973 6736
Stream Copy
single-core scalar
1903 7403
Stream Copy
single-core vector
2066 9071
Stream Scale
single-core scalar
2021 7768
Stream Scale
single-core vector
2017 8673
Stream Add
single-core scalar
1863 2495
Stream Add
single-core vector
2216 8978
Stream Triad
single-core scalar
2025 2854
Stream Triad
single-core vector
1673 6649