iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011) vs MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016)

Geekbench Scores

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016)
Single-Core Score 3420 4323
Multi-Core Score 8573 14448
Geekbench 4.2.0 Geekbench 4.4.4 Tryout

System Information

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016)
Operating System macOS 10.13.6 (Build 17G7024) macOS 10.16 (Build 21H1320)
Model iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016)
Processor Intel Core i5-2500S @ 2.70 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores 		Intel Core i7-6820HQ @ 2.70 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 94 Stepping 3
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 2 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 6144 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-942B5BF58194151B Apple Inc. Mac-A5C67F76ED83108C MacBookPro13,3
BIOS Apple Inc. IM121.88Z.004D.B00.1708080012 Apple Inc. 529.120.1.0.0
Memory 8.00 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3

Single-Core Performance

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016)
Single-Core Score 3420 4323
AES 3010
2.27 GB/sec 		2676
2.02 GB/sec
LZMA 3371
5.27 MB/sec 		3683
5.75 MB/sec
JPEG 3814
30.7 Mpixels/sec 		4200
33.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3330
46.2 Mpixels/sec 		3782
52.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2486
2.56 MB/sec 		4307
4.43 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4012
2.71 MTE/sec 		4777
3.23 MTE/sec
SQLite 2948
81.7 Krows/sec 		3744
103.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2686
12.2 MB/sec 		3698
16.8 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4258
3.86 MElements/sec 		5506
4.99 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3213
100.4 Mpixels/sec 		3861
120.7 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3120
82.9 Mpixels/sec 		5552
147.5 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5803
399.0 functions/sec 		7443
511.7 functions/sec
Camera 3982
11.0 images/sec 		4385
12.2 images/sec
SGEMM 1976
41.8 Gflops 		4610
97.4 Gflops
SFFT 3844
9.58 Gflops 		4659
11.6 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2929
2.19 Mpairs/sec 		4079
3.05 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2954
431.4 Kpixels/sec 		3724
543.8 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4438
12994.1 FPS 		4731
13849.3 FPS
HDR 3452
12.5 Mpixels/sec 		4604
16.7 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3836
67.2 Mpixels/sec 		4361
76.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4308
36.9 Words/sec 		4784
40.9 Words/sec
Face Detection 3703
1.08 Msubwindows/sec 		4046
1.18 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 2734
7.58 GB/sec 		4266
11.8 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5934
73.0 ns 		4702
92.1 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2367
12.6 GB/sec 		3984
21.3 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016)
Multi-Core Score 8573 14448
AES 7778
5.86 GB/sec 		11250
8.47 GB/sec
LZMA 10675
16.7 MB/sec 		15000
23.4 MB/sec
JPEG 11961
96.2 Mpixels/sec 		19068
153.4 Mpixels/sec
Canny 9588
133.0 Mpixels/sec 		15469
214.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 7671
7.88 MB/sec 		15958
16.4 MB/sec
Dijkstra 9399
6.36 MTE/sec 		16273
11.0 MTE/sec
SQLite 8631
239.3 Krows/sec 		14234
394.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 8525
38.7 MB/sec 		13934
63.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 12453
11.3 MElements/sec 		22409
20.3 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 9777
305.5 Mpixels/sec 		16057
501.7 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 8213
218.2 Mpixels/sec 		20510
544.9 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 17373
1.19 Kfunctions/sec 		31615
2.17 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 11701
32.4 images/sec 		18976
52.6 images/sec
SGEMM 5822
123.1 Gflops 		11218
237.1 Gflops
SFFT 11837
29.5 Gflops 		17927
44.7 Gflops
N-Body Physics 8793
6.57 Mpairs/sec 		17069
12.7 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 8595
1.26 Mpixels/sec 		15837
2.31 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 13301
38937.6 FPS 		23687
69341.1 FPS
HDR 9670
35.1 Mpixels/sec 		17921
65.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 11323
198.4 Mpixels/sec 		18482
323.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 8091
69.2 Words/sec 		11496
98.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 11189
3.27 Msubwindows/sec 		18227
5.32 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 2964
8.21 GB/sec 		5293
14.7 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5743
75.4 ns 		4118
105.1 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2544
13.6 GB/sec 		4691
25.1 GB/sec

Compare

Remove Baseline Geekbench 6 now available