iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) vs Mac Pro (Early 2008)

Geekbench Scores

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Single-Core Score 3641 1910
Multi-Core Score 8911 9991
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System Information

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Operating System macOS 10.13.6 (Build 17G5019) Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G17023)
Model iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Processor Intel Core i5-2500S @ 2.70 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores 		Intel Xeon E5462 @ 2.80 GHz
2 Processors, 8 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7 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-942B59F58194171B iMac12,2 Apple Inc. Mac-F42C88C8 Proto1
BIOS Apple Inc. 82.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. MP31.88Z.006C.B05.0802291410
Memory 12.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 12.00 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Single-Core Score 3641 1910
AES 2974
2.24 GB/sec 		116
89.8 MB/sec
LZMA 3891
6.08 MB/sec 		2857
4.46 MB/sec
JPEG 4116
33.1 Mpixels/sec 		2670
21.5 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3620
50.2 Mpixels/sec 		2113
29.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2750
2.83 MB/sec 		2099
2.16 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4323
2.93 MTE/sec 		2528
1.71 MTE/sec
SQLite 2986
82.8 Krows/sec 		1856
51.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2932
13.3 MB/sec 		1911
8.68 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4668
4.23 MElements/sec 		2648
2.40 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3365
105.2 Mpixels/sec 		2073
64.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3713
98.6 Mpixels/sec 		2270
60.3 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 6114
420.4 functions/sec 		4263
293.1 functions/sec
Camera 4024
11.2 images/sec 		2378
6.60 images/sec
SGEMM 2016
42.6 Gflops 		737
15.6 Gflops
SFFT 3950
9.85 Gflops 		995
2.48 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2933
2.19 Mpairs/sec 		1233
921.1 Kpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3017
440.7 Kpixels/sec 		1612
235.5 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4433
12977.2 FPS 		2578
7549.0 FPS
HDR 3492
12.7 Mpixels/sec 		2274
8.24 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3852
67.5 Mpixels/sec 		1221
21.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4443
38.0 Words/sec 		3167
27.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 3724
1.09 Msubwindows/sec 		2386
697.1 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3008
8.33 GB/sec 		1077
2.99 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6383
67.8 ns 		4478
96.7 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2787
14.9 GB/sec 		953
5.09 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Multi-Core Score 8911 9991
AES 8544
6.43 GB/sec 		924
713.2 MB/sec
LZMA 10725
16.8 MB/sec 		20087
31.4 MB/sec
JPEG 12337
99.3 Mpixels/sec 		20447
164.5 Mpixels/sec
Canny 9854
136.6 Mpixels/sec 		9965
138.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 8169
8.40 MB/sec 		14941
15.4 MB/sec
Dijkstra 10054
6.80 MTE/sec 		9250
6.26 MTE/sec
SQLite 8867
245.8 Krows/sec 		6268
173.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 8514
38.7 MB/sec 		11237
51.0 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 13459
12.2 MElements/sec 		20610
18.7 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 9902
309.4 Mpixels/sec 		14631
457.2 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 8984
238.7 Mpixels/sec 		10840
288.0 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 17473
1.20 Kfunctions/sec 		30444
2.09 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 12109
33.6 images/sec 		16427
45.6 images/sec
SGEMM 5849
123.6 Gflops 		5673
119.9 Gflops
SFFT 11907
29.7 Gflops 		7790
19.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 8882
6.63 Mpairs/sec 		9710
7.25 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 8757
1.28 Mpixels/sec 		8737
1.28 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 13315
38979.4 FPS 		17129
50143.0 FPS
HDR 9939
36.0 Mpixels/sec 		12682
46.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 11407
199.8 Mpixels/sec 		8774
153.7 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 8552
73.2 Words/sec 		11714
100.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 11174
3.26 Msubwindows/sec 		18756
5.48 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3353
9.29 GB/sec 		2225
6.17 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6088
71.1 ns 		2554
169.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3003
16.0 GB/sec 		1600
8.55 GB/sec

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