Mac Pro (Early 2008) Mac Pro (Mid 2012)
Geekbench 2 Score 11294 14760

System Information

Mac Pro (Early 2008) Mac Pro (Mid 2012)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.6.2 (Build 10C540) Mac OS X 10.14.6 (Build 18G9323)
Model Mac Pro (Early 2008) Mac Pro (Mid 2012)
Processor Intel Xeon E5462 @ 2.80 GHz
2 Processors, 8 Cores
Intel Xeon X5675 @ 3.06 GHz
1 Processor, 6 Cores, 12 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 44 Stepping 2
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB 32 KB x 6
L1 Data Cache 32 KB 32 KB x 6
L2 Cache 6144 KB 256 KB x 6
L3 Cache 0 KB 12288 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F42C88C8 Proto1 Apple Inc. Mac-F221BEC8
BIOS Apple Inc. MP31.88Z.006C.B05.0802291410 Apple Inc. 144.0.0.0.0
Memory 16.00 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM 32.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Integer Performance

Mac Pro (Early 2008) Mac Pro (Mid 2012)
Integer 11508 13908
Blowfish
single-core scalar
1829 2200
Blowfish
multi-core scalar
15469 21079
Text Compress
single-core scalar
2514 3098
Text Compress
multi-core scalar
19203 22579
Text Decompress
single-core scalar
2167 3179
Text Decompress
multi-core scalar
17783 23751
Image Compress
single-core scalar
2415 2940
Image Compress
multi-core scalar
18832 22778
Image Decompress
single-core scalar
2449 3131
Image Decompress
multi-core scalar
16957 22071
Lua
single-core scalar
4437 5673
Lua
multi-core scalar
34045 34420

Floating Point Performance

Mac Pro (Early 2008) Mac Pro (Mid 2012)
Floating Point 18289 23580
Mandelbrot
single-core scalar
2089 2911
Mandelbrot
multi-core scalar
16835 31394
Dot Product
single-core scalar
3783 4757
Dot Product
single-core vector
2938 5548
Dot Product
multi-core scalar
31818 29091
Dot Product
multi-core vector
26914 44294
LU Decomposition
single-core scalar
1647 2102
LU Decomposition
multi-core scalar
11531 4319
Primality Test
single-core scalar
5500 7299
Primality Test
multi-core scalar
33276 41188
Sharpen Image
single-core scalar
5971 7340
Sharpen Image
multi-core scalar
47990 62638
Blur Image
single-core scalar
7337 8670
Blur Image
multi-core scalar
58422 78569

Memory Performance

Mac Pro (Early 2008) Mac Pro (Mid 2012)
Memory 3039 5129
Read Sequential
single-core scalar
2634 5944
Write Sequential
single-core scalar
3678 9063
Stdlib Allocate
single-core scalar
2775 3343
Stdlib Write
single-core scalar
3731 3205
Stdlib Copy
single-core scalar
2379 4090

Stream Performance

Mac Pro (Early 2008) Mac Pro (Mid 2012)
Stream 2579 6136
Stream Copy
single-core scalar
2522 5288
Stream Scale
single-core scalar
2719 5563
Stream Add
single-core scalar
2367 6050
Stream Triad
single-core scalar
2554 6023