iMac (Early 2008) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Geekbench 3 Score 1642 2891
Geekbench 3 Multicore Score 3106 11405

System Information

iMac (Early 2008) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.11.6 Mac OS X 10.10.3 (Build 14D136)
Model iMac (Early 2008) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo E8235 @ 2.80 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 6 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 6144 KB 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 0 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F227BEC8 PVT Apple Inc. Mac-F65AE981FFA204ED Macmini6,2
BIOS Apple Inc. IM81.88Z.00C1.B00.0802091538 Apple Inc. MM61.88Z.0106.B03.1211161202
Memory 4.00 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Integer Performance

iMac (Early 2008) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Integer 1814 2909
Integer Multicore 3599 13102
AES 171 2752
AES Multicore 348 9206
Twofish 2302 3051
Twofish Multicore 4722 15536
SHA1 2589 3274
SHA1 Multicore 5269 12735
SHA2 2717 3864
SHA2 Multicore 5629 12763
BZip2 Compress 1886 2732
BZip2 Compress Multicore 3880 14084
BZip2 Decompress 1808 2845
BZip2 Decompress Multicore 3834 14957
JPEG Compress 2264 2736
JPEG Compress Multicore 4617 13826
JPEG Decompress 2997 2818
JPEG Decompress Multicore 5984 12010
PNG Compress 2099 2739
PNG Compress Multicore 4280 15016
PNG Decompress 2276 2830
PNG Decompress Multicore 4367 14545
Sobel 2090 2836
Sobel Multicore 4207 12354
Lua 2179 2639
Lua Multicore 4293 12340
Dijkstra 1662 2902
Dijkstra Multicore 2515 12388

Floating Point Performance

iMac (Early 2008) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Floating Point 1825 2953
Floating Point Multicore 3705 13859
BlackScholes 2588 3364
BlackScholes Multicore 5180 16061
Mandelbrot 1757 2922
Mandelbrot Multicore 3655 18869
Sharpen Filter 2228 2607
Sharpen Filter Multicore 4539 12074
Blur Filter 1975 2816
Blur Filter Multicore 4027 11705
SGEMM 1375 2566
SGEMM Multicore 2763 12621
DGEMM 1292 2784
DGEMM Multicore 2615 13904
SFFT 1701 2935
SFFT Multicore 3545 12387
DFFT 1744 3124
DFFT Multicore 3364 13812
N-Body 1807 3725
N-Body Multicore 3714 15470
Ray Trace 2156 2865
Ray Trace Multicore 4406 13143

Memory Performance

iMac (Early 2008) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Memory 933 2733
Memory Multicore 925 3105
Stream Copy 1344 2829
Stream Copy Multicore 1335 3109
Stream Scale 824 2811
Stream Scale Multicore 804 3094
Stream Add 819 2621
Stream Add Multicore 815 3075
Stream Triad 839 2679
Stream Triad Multicore 840 3145