iMac (27-inch Late 2012) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)

Geekbench Scores

iMac (27-inch Late 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 4140 4592
Multi-Core Score 13933 13525
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System Information

iMac (27-inch Late 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G103) macOS 10.13 (Build 17A405)
Model iMac (27-inch Late 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Processor Intel Core i7-3770 @ 3.40 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i5-7500 @ 3.40 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9
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 8192 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-FC02E91DDD3FA6A4 iMac13,2 Apple Inc. Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 iMac18,3
BIOS Apple Inc. 287.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. IM183.88Z.0151.B00.1708080034
Memory 32.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Late 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 4140 4592
AES 3336
2.51 GB/sec 		3050
2.30 GB/sec
LZMA 4138
6.46 MB/sec 		4024
6.29 MB/sec
JPEG 4456
35.9 Mpixels/sec 		4570
36.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3878
53.8 Mpixels/sec 		4281
59.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2898
2.98 MB/sec 		4414
4.54 MB/sec
Dijkstra 5293
3.58 MTE/sec 		4770
3.23 MTE/sec
SQLite 3228
89.5 Krows/sec 		3905
108.3 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3730
16.9 MB/sec 		3747
17.0 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5206
4.72 MElements/sec 		5139
4.66 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3672
114.7 Mpixels/sec 		4048
126.5 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4683
124.4 Mpixels/sec 		4154
110.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 6597
453.6 functions/sec 		7893
542.7 functions/sec
Camera 4227
11.7 images/sec 		4777
13.2 images/sec
SGEMM 2272
48.0 Gflops 		4701
99.4 Gflops
SFFT 4057
10.1 Gflops 		5275
13.2 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3655
2.73 Mpairs/sec 		4465
3.34 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3388
494.9 Kpixels/sec 		4127
602.7 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4870
14257.6 FPS 		5131
15023.1 FPS
HDR 4115
14.9 Mpixels/sec 		5528
20.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4212
73.8 Mpixels/sec 		4804
84.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4918
42.1 Words/sec 		4725
40.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 3878
1.13 Msubwindows/sec 		4532
1.32 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4261
11.8 GB/sec 		4030
11.2 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6639
65.2 ns 		6230
69.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3395
18.1 GB/sec 		4327
23.1 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Late 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 13933 13525
AES 10164
7.65 GB/sec 		12653
9.53 GB/sec
LZMA 18287
28.6 MB/sec 		13609
21.3 MB/sec
JPEG 21013
169.1 Mpixels/sec 		17610
141.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 16342
226.6 Mpixels/sec 		14314
198.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 13276
13.6 MB/sec 		16021
16.5 MB/sec
Dijkstra 16168
10.9 MTE/sec 		13394
9.06 MTE/sec
SQLite 14208
393.9 Krows/sec 		13675
379.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 16122
73.2 MB/sec 		13567
61.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 18793
17.0 MElements/sec 		18085
16.4 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 15607
487.7 Mpixels/sec 		15140
473.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 16092
427.5 Mpixels/sec 		13424
356.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 29206
2.01 Kfunctions/sec 		26623
1.83 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 20147
55.9 images/sec 		18432
51.1 images/sec
SGEMM 6691
141.4 Gflops 		11544
244.0 Gflops
SFFT 16995
42.4 Gflops 		20077
50.1 Gflops
N-Body Physics 15876
11.9 Mpairs/sec 		17334
12.9 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 15452
2.26 Mpixels/sec 		14525
2.12 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 23544
68921.7 FPS 		19236
56310.5 FPS
HDR 17808
64.6 Mpixels/sec 		18717
67.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 16105
282.1 Mpixels/sec 		17867
313.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 13564
116.1 Words/sec 		11109
95.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 16909
4.94 Msubwindows/sec 		17178
5.02 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4941
13.7 GB/sec 		4262
11.8 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6452
67.1 ns 		5902
73.4 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3541
18.9 GB/sec 		4267
22.8 GB/sec

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