Mac Pro (Early 2008) iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
Geekbench 2 Score 11182 9009

System Information

Mac Pro (Early 2008) iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Build 9L30) Mac OS X 10.8.3 (Build 12D78)
Model Mac Pro (Early 2008) iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
Processor Intel Xeon X5482 @ 3.20 GHz
2 Processors, 8 Cores
Intel Core i5-3470S @ 2.90 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 6144 KB 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 0 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F42C88C8 Proto1 Apple Inc. Mac-FC02E91DDD3FA6A4 iMac13,2
BIOS Apple Inc. MP31.88Z.006C.B05.0802291410 Apple Inc. IM131.88Z.010A.B05.1211151146
Memory 24.00 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Integer Performance

Mac Pro (Early 2008) iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
Integer 10623 7136
Blowfish
single-core scalar
2226 2526
Blowfish
multi-core scalar
18482 9941
Text Compress
single-core scalar
2483 3002
Text Compress
multi-core scalar
18481 10598
Text Decompress
single-core scalar
2246 3272
Text Decompress
multi-core scalar
17344 12232
Image Compress
single-core scalar
2290 2471
Image Compress
multi-core scalar
17515 8854
Image Decompress
single-core scalar
1856 2639
Image Decompress
multi-core scalar
12550 9120
Lua
single-core scalar
3643 4554
Lua
multi-core scalar
28363 16425

Floating Point Performance

Mac Pro (Early 2008) iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
Floating Point 18888 12555
Mandelbrot
single-core scalar
2385 3273
Mandelbrot
multi-core scalar
19120 12146
Dot Product
single-core scalar
4371 4629
Dot Product
single-core vector
3497 7074
Dot Product
multi-core scalar
36585 17786
Dot Product
multi-core vector
32036 29797
LU Decomposition
single-core scalar
951 1575
LU Decomposition
multi-core scalar
7310 5437
Primality Test
single-core scalar
4588 7166
Primality Test
multi-core scalar
27793 21016
Sharpen Image
single-core scalar
6434 6697
Sharpen Image
multi-core scalar
47624 24927
Blur Image
single-core scalar
8286 7814
Blur Image
multi-core scalar
63453 26436

Memory Performance

Mac Pro (Early 2008) iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
Memory 3042 7020
Read Sequential
single-core scalar
2632 8112
Write Sequential
single-core scalar
3808 11958
Stdlib Allocate
single-core scalar
2629 4579
Stdlib Write
single-core scalar
3756 4487
Stdlib Copy
single-core scalar
2385 5966

Stream Performance

Mac Pro (Early 2008) iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
Stream 2453 7139
Stream Copy
single-core scalar
2551 8133
Stream Scale
single-core scalar
2729 8423
Stream Add
single-core scalar
1939 2789
Stream Triad
single-core scalar
2117 3261