iMac (27-inch Late 2009) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Geekbench 3 Score 2389 2655
Geekbench 3 Multicore Score 8482 10379

System Information

iMac (27-inch Late 2009) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.12.1 Mac OS X 10.9 (Build 13A603)
Model iMac (27-inch Late 2009) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Processor Intel Core i7-860 @ 2.80 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 2.30 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 30 Stepping 5 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 8192 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F2268DAE Apple Inc. Mac-F65AE981FFA204ED Macmini6,2
BIOS Apple Inc. IM111.88Z.0034.B04.1509231906 Apple Inc. MM61.88Z.0106.B03.1211161202
Memory 16.00 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Integer Performance

iMac (27-inch Late 2009) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Integer 2280 2638
Integer Multicore 9290 11883
AES 211 2502
AES Multicore 774 8351
Twofish 2753 2826
Twofish Multicore 12636 13967
SHA1 3282 2968
SHA1 Multicore 10499 11369
SHA2 3382 3428
SHA2 Multicore 11091 11326
BZip2 Compress 2156 2468
BZip2 Compress Multicore 10276 12735
BZip2 Decompress 2369 2563
BZip2 Decompress Multicore 11296 13499
JPEG Compress 2766 2464
JPEG Compress Multicore 12970 12610
JPEG Decompress 3847 2530
JPEG Decompress Multicore 14487 10767
PNG Compress 2887 2470
PNG Compress Multicore 13262 13563
PNG Decompress 2886 2537
PNG Decompress Multicore 12901 13065
Sobel 2695 2587
Sobel Multicore 11901 11439
Lua 2564 2515
Lua Multicore 10769 11473
Dijkstra 2236 2592
Dijkstra Multicore 7054 11563

Floating Point Performance

iMac (27-inch Late 2009) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Floating Point 2720 2674
Floating Point Multicore 10874 12542
BlackScholes 3450 3026
BlackScholes Multicore 15107 14667
Mandelbrot 2916 2703
Mandelbrot Multicore 13848 17433
Sharpen Filter 2735 2408
Sharpen Filter Multicore 10699 10836
Blur Filter 2315 2599
Blur Filter Multicore 10059 10455
SGEMM 3028 2331
SGEMM Multicore 11158 11465
DGEMM 2809 2530
DGEMM Multicore 10686 12653
SFFT 2200 2644
SFFT Multicore 7575 11114
DFFT 2384 2759
DFFT Multicore 8965 12395
N-Body 2512 3326
N-Body Multicore 9831 13947
Ray Trace 3108 2553
Ray Trace Multicore 12906 11933

Memory Performance

iMac (27-inch Late 2009) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Memory 1948 2653
Memory Multicore 2083 3048
Stream Copy 1980 2704
Stream Copy Multicore 2151 3047
Stream Scale 1998 2752
Stream Scale Multicore 2106 3050
Stream Add 1889 2557
Stream Add Multicore 2014 3007
Stream Triad 1930 2607
Stream Triad Multicore 2064 3092