MacBook (Late 2008) MacBook (Early 2009)
Geekbench 2 Score 3277 3004

System Information

MacBook (Late 2008) MacBook (Early 2009)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Build 9L30) Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Build 9L30)
Model MacBook (Late 2008) MacBook (Early 2009)
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 @ 2.40 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores
Intel Core 2 Duo P7350 @ 2.00 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB 32 KB
L1 Data Cache 32 KB 32 KB
L2 Cache 3072 KB 3072 KB
L3 Cache 0 KB 0 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F42D89A9 Proto Apple Inc. Mac-F22788AA
BIOS Apple Inc. MB51.88Z.007D.B00.0901301153 Apple Inc. MB52.88Z.0088.B05.0904162222
Memory 2.00 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 2.00 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

Integer Performance

MacBook (Late 2008) MacBook (Early 2009)
Integer 2664 2694
Blowfish
single-core scalar
1676 1279
Blowfish
multi-core scalar
3424 2595
Text Compress
single-core scalar
1814 1776
Text Compress
multi-core scalar
3320 3191
Text Decompress
single-core scalar
1667 1544
Text Decompress
multi-core scalar
3232 2929
Image Compress
single-core scalar
1699 1702
Image Compress
multi-core scalar
3287 3197
Image Decompress
single-core scalar
1382 1649
Image Decompress
multi-core scalar
2696 2729
Lua
single-core scalar
2694 3423
Lua
multi-core scalar
5084 6318

Floating Point Performance

MacBook (Late 2008) MacBook (Early 2009)
Floating Point 4696 4135
Mandelbrot
single-core scalar
1774 1481
Mandelbrot
multi-core scalar
3486 2881
Dot Product
single-core scalar
3241 2681
Dot Product
single-core vector
2602 2084
Dot Product
multi-core scalar
6796 5288
Dot Product
multi-core vector
5939 4750
LU Decomposition
single-core scalar
684 1152
LU Decomposition
multi-core scalar
1395 2093
Primality Test
single-core scalar
3345 3759
Primality Test
multi-core scalar
4887 5435
Sharpen Image
single-core scalar
4744 4100
Sharpen Image
multi-core scalar
9168 7717
Blur Image
single-core scalar
6138 5132
Blur Image
multi-core scalar
11557 9346

Memory Performance

MacBook (Late 2008) MacBook (Early 2009)
Memory 2555 2296
Read Sequential
single-core scalar
3116 2625
Write Sequential
single-core scalar
2636 2168
Stdlib Allocate
single-core scalar
2214 2156
Stdlib Write
single-core scalar
2409 2504
Stdlib Copy
single-core scalar
2401 2030

Stream Performance

MacBook (Late 2008) MacBook (Early 2009)
Stream 1903 1556
Stream Copy
single-core scalar
1764 1530
Stream Scale
single-core scalar
1863 1574
Stream Add
single-core scalar
1745 1496
Stream Triad
single-core scalar
1910 1648