iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) vs MacBook (Late 2008)

Geekbench Scores

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) MacBook (Late 2008)
Single-Core Score 5755 1162
Multi-Core Score 18738 1919
Geekbench 4.2.3 Pro Geekbench 4.3.3 Tryout

System Information

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) MacBook (Late 2008)
Operating System macOS 10.14.1 (Build 18B75) macOS 10.14.4 (Build 18E226)
Model iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) MacBook (Late 2008)
Processor Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.20 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 @ 2.40 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 3072 KB
L3 Cache 8192 KB 0 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 iMac18,3 Apple Inc. Mac-F42D89C8 Proto
BIOS Apple Inc. 166.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. MB51.88Z.007D.B03.0904271443
Memory 40.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 8.00 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) MacBook (Late 2008)
Single-Core Score 5755 1162
AES 4987
3.76 GB/sec 		66
51.1 MB/sec
LZMA 5070
7.92 MB/sec 		1545
2.41 MB/sec
JPEG 5662
45.6 Mpixels/sec 		1541
12.4 Mpixels/sec
Canny 5236
72.6 Mpixels/sec 		1264
17.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5520
5.67 MB/sec 		1152
1.18 MB/sec
Dijkstra 6486
4.39 MTE/sec 		1368
926.2 KTE/sec
SQLite 4865
134.9 Krows/sec 		1003
27.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4975
22.6 MB/sec 		1116
5.07 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6403
5.80 MElements/sec 		1459
1.32 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 5142
160.7 Mpixels/sec 		1307
40.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 7018
186.5 Mpixels/sec 		1253
33.3 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 9260
636.7 functions/sec 		2270
156.1 functions/sec
Camera 6001
16.6 images/sec 		1376
3.82 images/sec
SGEMM 5893
124.6 Gflops 		415
8.79 Gflops
SFFT 5903
14.7 Gflops 		595
1.49 Gflops
N-Body Physics 5374
4.01 Mpairs/sec 		699
522.3 Kpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4918
718.1 Kpixels/sec 		906
132.4 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 6086
17817.9 FPS 		1461
4279.5 FPS
HDR 6752
24.5 Mpixels/sec 		1325
4.81 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5808
101.8 Mpixels/sec 		701
12.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6060
51.9 Words/sec 		1454
12.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 5342
1.56 Msubwindows/sec 		1355
396.0 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5614
15.6 GB/sec 		969
2.68 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6330
68.4 ns 		3327
130.1 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5118
27.3 GB/sec 		810
4.33 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) MacBook (Late 2008)
Multi-Core Score 18738 1919
AES 13829
10.4 GB/sec 		128
99.3 MB/sec
LZMA 21776
34.0 MB/sec 		2806
4.38 MB/sec
JPEG 25399
204.4 Mpixels/sec 		3021
24.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 21717
301.2 Mpixels/sec 		2358
32.7 Mpixels/sec
Lua 19480
20.0 MB/sec 		2286
2.35 MB/sec
Dijkstra 22622
15.3 MTE/sec 		2378
1.61 MTE/sec
SQLite 17754
492.2 Krows/sec 		1807
50.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 19629
89.1 MB/sec 		2140
9.72 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 24116
21.9 MElements/sec 		2867
2.60 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 20482
640.0 Mpixels/sec 		2592
81.0 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 26116
693.8 Mpixels/sec 		2072
55.1 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 38616
2.66 Kfunctions/sec 		4307
296.2 functions/sec
Camera 25133
69.7 images/sec 		2608
7.23 images/sec
SGEMM 17493
369.8 Gflops 		811
17.2 Gflops
SFFT 19109
47.6 Gflops 		1186
2.96 Gflops
N-Body Physics 21926
16.4 Mpairs/sec 		1369
1.02 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 20277
2.96 Mpixels/sec 		1763
257.5 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 28773
84228.6 FPS 		2893
8471.5 FPS
HDR 26524
96.2 Mpixels/sec 		2422
8.78 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 22285
390.4 Mpixels/sec 		1271
22.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 16029
137.1 Words/sec 		2138
18.3 Words/sec
Face Detection 23388
6.83 Msubwindows/sec 		2634
769.6 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 6812
18.9 GB/sec 		923
2.56 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6356
68.1 ns 		2916
148.4 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5328
28.5 GB/sec 		821
4.38 GB/sec

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