iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) vs Mac Pro (Early 2008)

Geekbench Scores

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Single-Core Score 4989 1873
Multi-Core Score 14788 8415
Geekbench 4.3.0 Geekbench 4.0.0 Tryout

System Information

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Operating System macOS 10.14.1 (Build 18B75) Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G31)
Model iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Processor Intel Core i5-7500 @ 3.40 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores 		Intel Xeon E5462 @ 2.80 GHz
2 Processors, 8 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6
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 6144 KB x 2
L3 Cache 6144 KB 0 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 iMac18,3 Apple Inc. Mac-F42C88C8 Proto1
BIOS Apple Inc. 166.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. MP31.88Z.006C.B05.0802291410
Memory 16.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 16.00 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Single-Core Score 4989 1873
AES 3193
2.40 GB/sec 		113
87.8 MB/sec
LZMA 4284
6.69 MB/sec 		2871
4.48 MB/sec
JPEG 4846
39.0 Mpixels/sec 		2689
21.6 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4591
63.7 Mpixels/sec 		2116
29.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4533
4.66 MB/sec 		2048
2.10 MB/sec
Dijkstra 5510
3.73 MTE/sec 		2553
1.73 MTE/sec
SQLite 4140
114.8 Krows/sec 		1880
52.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4161
18.9 MB/sec 		1936
8.79 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5428
4.92 MElements/sec 		3035
2.75 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4414
137.9 Mpixels/sec 		2210
69.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5965
158.5 Mpixels/sec 		2259
60.0 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7933
545.5 functions/sec 		2689
184.9 functions/sec
Camera 5101
14.1 images/sec 		2423
6.72 images/sec
SGEMM 5063
107.0 Gflops 		733
15.5 Gflops
SFFT 5438
13.6 Gflops 		978
2.44 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4644
3.47 Mpairs/sec 		1217
909.2 Kpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4276
624.5 Kpixels/sec 		1586
231.6 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 5321
15578.3 FPS 		2565
7508.7 FPS
HDR 5823
21.1 Mpixels/sec 		2269
8.23 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5151
90.3 Mpixels/sec 		1248
21.9 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5235
44.8 Words/sec 		3060
26.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 4693
1.37 Msubwindows/sec 		2379
695.0 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4952
13.7 GB/sec 		1089
3.02 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6595
65.6 ns 		4064
9.39 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 4687
25.0 GB/sec 		929
4.96 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Multi-Core Score 14788 8415
AES 14504
10.9 GB/sec 		880
678.8 MB/sec
LZMA 14524
22.7 MB/sec 		17845
27.9 MB/sec
JPEG 18426
148.3 Mpixels/sec 		19933
160.4 Mpixels/sec
Canny 15847
219.8 Mpixels/sec 		10572
146.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 15674
16.1 MB/sec 		14220
14.6 MB/sec
Dijkstra 15263
10.3 MTE/sec 		10045
6.80 MTE/sec
SQLite 14337
397.5 Krows/sec 		2627
72.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 14789
67.1 MB/sec 		11558
52.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 19592
17.8 MElements/sec 		21195
19.2 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 16577
518.0 Mpixels/sec 		15518
484.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 18316
486.6 Mpixels/sec 		10727
285.0 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 27980
1.92 Kfunctions/sec 		2728
187.6 functions/sec
Camera 19250
53.4 images/sec 		16264
45.1 images/sec
SGEMM 14487
306.2 Gflops 		5155
109.0 Gflops
SFFT 20773
51.8 Gflops 		7611
19.0 Gflops
N-Body Physics 17672
13.2 Mpairs/sec 		9159
6.84 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 14304
2.09 Mpixels/sec 		8555
1.25 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 19970
58459.5 FPS 		17099
50056.2 FPS
HDR 19676
71.3 Mpixels/sec 		13655
49.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 19412
340.1 Mpixels/sec 		8541
149.6 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 13009
111.3 Words/sec 		9903
84.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 17886
5.22 Msubwindows/sec 		18156
5.30 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5952
16.5 GB/sec 		2050
5.68 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6477
66.8 ns 		3531
8.16 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 4695
25.1 GB/sec 		1828
9.77 GB/sec

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