iMac (Early 2008) iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
Geekbench 2 Score 3403 8414

System Information

iMac (Early 2008) iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.6.4 (Build 10F569) Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Build 10K549)
Model iMac (Early 2008) iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo E8135 @ 2.40 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores
Intel Core i7-860 @ 2.80 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 30 Stepping 5
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB 32 KB
L1 Data Cache 32 KB 32 KB
L2 Cache 6144 KB 256 KB
L3 Cache 0 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F226BEC8 PVT Apple Inc. Mac-F2268DAE
BIOS Apple Inc. IM81.88Z.00C1.B00.0802091538 Apple Inc. IM111.88Z.0034.B02.1003171314
Memory 1.00 GB 0 MHz RAM 8.00 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

Integer Performance

iMac (Early 2008) iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
Integer 2789 6852
Blowfish
single-core scalar
1685 1850
Blowfish
multi-core scalar
3537 11969
Text Compress
single-core scalar
1879 1967
Text Compress
multi-core scalar
3590 10811
Text Decompress
single-core scalar
1669 2247
Text Decompress
multi-core scalar
3390 11980
Image Compress
single-core scalar
1716 2024
Image Compress
multi-core scalar
3302 10702
Image Decompress
single-core scalar
1504 1818
Image Decompress
multi-core scalar
3022 7979
Lua
single-core scalar
2749 3248
Lua
multi-core scalar
5426 15640

Floating Point Performance

iMac (Early 2008) iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
Floating Point 4980 14179
Mandelbrot
single-core scalar
1787 2547
Mandelbrot
multi-core scalar
3605 18556
Dot Product
single-core scalar
3275 4200
Dot Product
single-core vector
2616 5048
Dot Product
multi-core scalar
6867 16976
Dot Product
multi-core vector
5943 22045
LU Decomposition
single-core scalar
702 697
LU Decomposition
multi-core scalar
1423 3392
Primality Test
single-core scalar
3941 4982
Primality Test
multi-core scalar
6068 19101
Sharpen Image
single-core scalar
4997 6054
Sharpen Image
multi-core scalar
9843 36335
Blur Image
single-core scalar
6291 7997
Blur Image
multi-core scalar
12367 50581

Memory Performance

iMac (Early 2008) iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
Memory 2609 3460
Read Sequential
single-core scalar
3546 5145
Write Sequential
single-core scalar
2573 2726
Stdlib Allocate
single-core scalar
2159 3301
Stdlib Write
single-core scalar
2294 2598
Stdlib Copy
single-core scalar
2477 3533

Stream Performance

iMac (Early 2008) iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
Stream 1621 3617
Stream Copy
single-core scalar
1682 4260
Stream Scale
single-core scalar
1657 4129
Stream Add
single-core scalar
1528 1593
Stream Triad
single-core scalar
1692 1697