iMac (Late 2009) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Geekbench 2 Score 4257 7232

System Information

iMac (Late 2009) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.6.4 (Build 10F569) Mac OS X 10.9.5 (Build 13F34)
Model iMac (Late 2009) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo E7600 @ 3.06 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores
Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 3072 KB 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 0 KB 3072 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F2268CC8 Apple Inc. Mac-4BC72D62AD45599E Macmini5,2
BIOS Apple Inc. IM101.88Z.00CC.B00.0909031926 Apple Inc. MM51.88Z.0077.B10.1201241549
Memory 8.00 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 12.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Integer Performance

iMac (Late 2009) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Integer 3492 5432
Blowfish
single-core scalar
2150 1948
Blowfish
multi-core scalar
4490 6366
Text Compress
single-core scalar
2341 3050
Text Compress
multi-core scalar
4452 7799
Text Decompress
single-core scalar
2116 2434
Text Decompress
multi-core scalar
4246 8828
Image Compress
single-core scalar
2175 2282
Image Compress
multi-core scalar
4197 7412
Image Decompress
single-core scalar
1920 2356
Image Decompress
multi-core scalar
3763 7684
Lua
single-core scalar
3488 3859
Lua
multi-core scalar
6573 11168

Floating Point Performance

iMac (Late 2009) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Floating Point 6328 9841
Mandelbrot
single-core scalar
2276 2579
Mandelbrot
multi-core scalar
4545 9223
Dot Product
single-core scalar
4176 3839
Dot Product
single-core vector
3341 5319
Dot Product
multi-core scalar
8713 10791
Dot Product
multi-core vector
7620 15289
LU Decomposition
single-core scalar
874 2378
LU Decomposition
multi-core scalar
1782 3549
Primality Test
single-core scalar
4873 7931
Primality Test
multi-core scalar
7632 16542
Sharpen Image
single-core scalar
6411 6293
Sharpen Image
multi-core scalar
12619 20810
Blur Image
single-core scalar
8052 7359
Blur Image
multi-core scalar
15684 25878

Memory Performance

iMac (Late 2009) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Memory 3093 5752
Read Sequential
single-core scalar
4259 6071
Write Sequential
single-core scalar
3196 8912
Stdlib Allocate
single-core scalar
2736 4433
Stdlib Write
single-core scalar
2485 4016
Stdlib Copy
single-core scalar
2790 5330

Stream Performance

iMac (Late 2009) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Stream 2017 7362
Stream Copy
single-core scalar
1851 6780
Stream Scale
single-core scalar
2058 6800
Stream Add
single-core scalar
1888 6637
Stream Triad
single-core scalar
1905 7133