iMac (Early 2009) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Geekbench 2 Score 4071 13129

System Information

iMac (Early 2009) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.6.6 (Build 10J567) Mac OS X 10.8.2
Model iMac (Early 2009) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo E8135 @ 2.66 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores
Intel Core i7-3720QM @ 2.60 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 6144 KB 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 0 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F2218EC8 Apple Inc. Mac-F65AE981FFA204ED Macmini6,2
BIOS Apple Inc. IM91.88Z.008D.B08.0904271717 Apple Inc. MM61.88Z.0106.B03.1211161202
Memory 2.00 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Integer Performance

iMac (Early 2009) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Integer 3673 11498
Blowfish
single-core scalar
1732 2304
Blowfish
multi-core scalar
3628 16229
Text Compress
single-core scalar
2384 3653
Text Compress
multi-core scalar
4164 18140
Text Decompress
single-core scalar
2076 3939
Text Decompress
multi-core scalar
4173 20148
Image Compress
single-core scalar
2292 3309
Image Compress
multi-core scalar
4290 17422
Image Decompress
single-core scalar
2347 3797
Image Decompress
multi-core scalar
4511 16046
Lua
single-core scalar
4252 6307
Lua
multi-core scalar
8234 26688

Floating Point Performance

iMac (Early 2009) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Floating Point 5751 19660
Mandelbrot
single-core scalar
1984 3173
Mandelbrot
multi-core scalar
3961 24065
Dot Product
single-core scalar
3593 4943
Dot Product
single-core vector
2790 7921
Dot Product
multi-core scalar
7423 24757
Dot Product
multi-core vector
6287 34770
LU Decomposition
single-core scalar
1438 2897
LU Decomposition
multi-core scalar
2890 5826
Primality Test
single-core scalar
5215 8669
Primality Test
multi-core scalar
7819 34514
Sharpen Image
single-core scalar
5622 7448
Sharpen Image
multi-core scalar
10928 48290
Blur Image
single-core scalar
6944 8445
Blur Image
multi-core scalar
13622 59528

Memory Performance

iMac (Early 2009) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Memory 2918 7079
Read Sequential
single-core scalar
4027 8043
Write Sequential
single-core scalar
2897 12323
Stdlib Allocate
single-core scalar
2663 4914
Stdlib Write
single-core scalar
2495 4338
Stdlib Copy
single-core scalar
2509 5777

Stream Performance

iMac (Early 2009) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Stream 1891 8084
Stream Copy
single-core scalar
1707 8199
Stream Scale
single-core scalar
1850 8549
Stream Add
single-core scalar
1796 7130
Stream Triad
single-core scalar
2081 7736