iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Geekbench 3 Score 1996 3136
Geekbench 3 Multicore Score 4152 12536

System Information

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.9.3 (Build 13D65) Mac OS X 10.10.3 (Build 14D136)
Model iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Processor Intel Core i3-540 @ 3.06 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Intel Core i7-3720QM @ 2.60 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 37 Stepping 5 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 4096 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F2238AC8 Apple Inc. Mac-F65AE981FFA204ED Macmini6,2
BIOS Apple Inc. IM112.88Z.0057.B00.1005031455 Apple Inc. MM61.88Z.0106.B03.1211161202
Memory 16.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 4.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Integer Performance

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Integer 1840 3124
Integer Multicore 4281 14174
AES 140 2960
AES Multicore 299 8034
Twofish 2374 3033
Twofish Multicore 5406 16436
SHA1 2730 3547
SHA1 Multicore 5049 14310
SHA2 2713 3701
SHA2 Multicore 4975 14461
BZip2 Compress 2154 2649
BZip2 Compress Multicore 5733 13542
BZip2 Decompress 2229 2852
BZip2 Decompress Multicore 6162 14845
JPEG Compress 2223 3206
JPEG Compress Multicore 5726 16821
JPEG Decompress 2147 4425
JPEG Decompress Multicore 4609 19074
PNG Compress 2263 2989
PNG Compress Multicore 5506 16954
PNG Decompress 2215 3280
PNG Decompress Multicore 5644 16743
Sobel 2012 3309
Sobel Multicore 4775 16023
Lua 2188 2769
Lua Multicore 5174 13547
Dijkstra 2241 2387
Dijkstra Multicore 5589 8588

Floating Point Performance

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Floating Point 2239 3346
Floating Point Multicore 5091 15659
BlackScholes 2488 4044
BlackScholes Multicore 6300 20184
Mandelbrot 2590 2970
Mandelbrot Multicore 7226 19034
Sharpen Filter 2412 2735
Sharpen Filter Multicore 5105 13375
Blur Filter 2141 2149
Blur Filter Multicore 4782 12327
SGEMM 2346 4024
SGEMM Multicore 4965 15636
DGEMM 2250 3690
DGEMM Multicore 4809 15163
SFFT 2046 2915
SFFT Multicore 4059 12254
DFFT 2156 3185
DFFT Multicore 4682 13996
N-Body 1975 4732
N-Body Multicore 4513 19638
Ray Trace 2070 3826
Ray Trace Multicore 5141 17535

Memory Performance

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Memory 1826 2742
Memory Multicore 2020 3017
Stream Copy 1865 3691
Stream Copy Multicore 2104 3825
Stream Scale 1853 2572
Stream Scale Multicore 2083 2757
Stream Add 1798 2385
Stream Add Multicore 1932 2778
Stream Triad 1792 2500
Stream Triad Multicore 1970 2830