MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) vs iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
Single-Core Score 3480 3410
Multi-Core Score 11829 7909
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System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
Operating System macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G87) macOS 10.12.1 (Build 16B2555)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
Processor Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 2.30 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i5-2500S @ 2.70 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
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 4 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 6144 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-4B7AC7E43945597E MacBookPro9,1 Apple Inc. Mac-942B5BF58194151B
BIOS Apple Inc. 228.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. IM121.88Z.0047.B23.1510261412
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
Single-Core Score 3480 3410
AES 2800
2.11 GB/sec 		2931
2.21 GB/sec
LZMA 3591
5.61 MB/sec 		3519
5.50 MB/sec
JPEG 3729
30.0 Mpixels/sec 		4038
32.5 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3333
46.2 Mpixels/sec 		3505
48.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2454
2.52 MB/sec 		2738
2.81 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3920
2.65 MTE/sec 		4037
2.73 MTE/sec
SQLite 2678
74.3 Krows/sec 		3076
85.3 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2917
13.2 MB/sec 		2986
13.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4393
3.98 MElements/sec 		4049
3.67 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3105
97.0 Mpixels/sec 		3293
102.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4125
109.6 Mpixels/sec 		3492
92.8 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5590
384.4 functions/sec 		4215
289.8 functions/sec
Camera 3781
10.5 images/sec 		3904
10.8 images/sec
SGEMM 1938
41.0 Gflops 		2003
42.3 Gflops
SFFT 3684
9.19 Gflops 		3917
9.77 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2901
2.17 Mpairs/sec 		2918
2.18 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2849
416.1 Kpixels/sec 		3013
440.0 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4133
12099.2 FPS 		4407
12902.8 FPS
HDR 3442
12.5 Mpixels/sec 		3473
12.6 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3517
61.6 Mpixels/sec 		3708
65.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3931
33.6 Words/sec 		4434
37.9 Words/sec
Face Detection 3101
905.8 Ksubwindows/sec 		3700
1.08 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3748
10.4 GB/sec 		2437
6.75 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5167
83.8 ns 		6472
14.9 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 3077
16.4 GB/sec 		2126
11.4 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
Multi-Core Score 11829 7909
AES 10911
8.22 GB/sec 		5944
4.48 GB/sec
LZMA 15195
23.7 MB/sec 		10657
16.6 MB/sec
JPEG 17859
143.7 Mpixels/sec 		11819
95.1 Mpixels/sec
Canny 14313
198.5 Mpixels/sec 		9241
128.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 11139
11.4 MB/sec 		8248
8.48 MB/sec
Dijkstra 15067
10.2 MTE/sec 		9223
6.24 MTE/sec
SQLite 11602
321.7 Krows/sec 		7686
213.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 12079
54.8 MB/sec 		8769
39.8 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 11884
10.8 MElements/sec 		7296
6.61 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 13001
406.2 Mpixels/sec 		9760
305.0 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 14766
392.3 Mpixels/sec 		8266
219.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 24043
1.65 Kfunctions/sec 		8407
578.0 functions/sec
Camera 16638
46.1 images/sec 		11802
32.7 images/sec
SGEMM 6790
143.5 Gflops 		5848
123.6 Gflops
SFFT 14183
35.4 Gflops 		11941
29.8 Gflops
N-Body Physics 12897
9.63 Mpairs/sec 		8763
6.54 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 12848
1.88 Mpixels/sec 		8730
1.27 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 19672
57587.2 FPS 		13121
38410.3 FPS
HDR 14964
54.2 Mpixels/sec 		9648
35.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 13440
235.4 Mpixels/sec 		10332
181.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 11143
95.3 Words/sec 		8097
69.3 Words/sec
Face Detection 14401
4.21 Msubwindows/sec 		11186
3.27 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4765
13.2 GB/sec 		2508
6.95 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5352
80.9 ns 		6268
14.5 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 3548
18.9 GB/sec 		2083
11.1 GB/sec

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