iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011) vs MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)

Geekbench Scores

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Single-Core Score 3307 4028
Multi-Core Score 8402 14600
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System Information

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Operating System macOS 10.13 (Build 17A291m) macOS 10.12.4 (Build 16E195)
Model iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Processor Intel Core i5-2400S @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores 		Intel Core i7-4870HQ @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 70 Stepping 1
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 6144 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-942B5BF58194151B Apple Inc. Mac-06F11F11946D27C5 MacBookPro11,5
BIOS Apple Inc. IM121.88Z.004A.B01.1706261231 Apple Inc. MBP114.88Z.0172.B16.1702161608
Memory 8.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Single-Core Score 3307 4028
AES 2630
1.98 GB/sec 		3514
2.65 GB/sec
LZMA 3383
5.29 MB/sec 		3874
6.05 MB/sec
JPEG 3646
29.3 Mpixels/sec 		4065
32.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3192
44.3 Mpixels/sec 		3834
53.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2322
2.39 MB/sec 		3585
3.68 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3841
2.60 MTE/sec 		4102
2.78 MTE/sec
SQLite 2545
70.6 Krows/sec 		3661
101.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2635
12.0 MB/sec 		3470
15.8 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4072
3.69 MElements/sec 		4603
4.17 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2974
92.9 Mpixels/sec 		3556
111.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3188
84.7 Mpixels/sec 		3797
100.9 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5433
373.6 functions/sec 		6937
477.0 functions/sec
Camera 3578
9.92 images/sec 		4149
11.5 images/sec
SGEMM 1903
40.2 Gflops 		3484
73.7 Gflops
SFFT 3474
8.66 Gflops 		3957
9.87 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2621
1.96 Mpairs/sec 		3633
2.71 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2696
393.7 Kpixels/sec 		3178
464.2 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3979
11649.0 FPS 		4318
12642.7 FPS
HDR 3115
11.3 Mpixels/sec 		3675
13.3 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3439
60.3 Mpixels/sec 		3958
69.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3927
33.6 Words/sec 		4083
34.9 Words/sec
Face Detection 3314
968.1 Ksubwindows/sec 		4045
1.18 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3013
8.35 GB/sec 		3608
10.00 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6443
67.2 ns 		5096
85.0 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2784
14.9 GB/sec 		4719
25.2 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Multi-Core Score 8402 14600
AES 8314
6.26 GB/sec 		11489
8.65 GB/sec
LZMA 9947
15.5 MB/sec 		17197
26.9 MB/sec
JPEG 11463
92.2 Mpixels/sec 		20539
165.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 9280
128.7 Mpixels/sec 		16411
227.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 7335
7.54 MB/sec 		14701
15.1 MB/sec
Dijkstra 9837
6.66 MTE/sec 		24293
16.4 MTE/sec
SQLite 7933
219.9 Krows/sec 		11928
330.7 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 8062
36.6 MB/sec 		14134
64.2 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 12598
11.4 MElements/sec 		18572
16.8 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 9082
283.8 Mpixels/sec 		15806
493.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 8319
221.0 Mpixels/sec 		16339
434.1 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 16476
1.13 Kfunctions/sec 		30390
2.09 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 11192
31.0 images/sec 		19508
54.1 images/sec
SGEMM 5813
122.9 Gflops 		13297
281.1 Gflops
SFFT 11011
27.4 Gflops 		17265
43.0 Gflops
N-Body Physics 8214
6.13 Mpairs/sec 		15332
11.5 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 8133
1.19 Mpixels/sec 		15090
2.20 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 12350
36154.2 FPS 		21756
63689.4 FPS
HDR 9470
34.3 Mpixels/sec 		18140
65.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 10589
185.5 Mpixels/sec 		16535
289.7 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 8352
71.5 Words/sec 		17689
151.3 Words/sec
Face Detection 10383
3.03 Msubwindows/sec 		17762
5.19 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3371
9.34 GB/sec 		5049
14.0 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6165
70.2 ns 		5138
84.3 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3002
16.0 GB/sec 		4496
24.0 GB/sec

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