iMac (Early 2009) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)

Geekbench Scores

iMac (Early 2009) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Single-Core Score 2092 5524
Multi-Core Score 3594 18097
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System Information

iMac (Early 2009) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G22010) macOS 10.12 (Build 16A320)
Model iMac (Early 2009) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo E8435 @ 3.06 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores 		Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.01 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10 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 6144 KB 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 0 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F2218FC8 Apple Inc. Mac-B809C3757DA9BB8D iMac17,1
BIOS Apple Inc. IM91.88Z.008D.B08.0904271717 Apple Inc. IM171.88Z.0105.B08.1604111319
Memory 8.00 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 64.00 GB 2666 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

iMac (Early 2009) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Single-Core Score 2092 5524
AES 126
97.4 MB/sec 		3609
2.72 GB/sec
LZMA 3158
4.93 MB/sec 		4986
7.79 MB/sec
JPEG 2895
23.3 Mpixels/sec 		5801
46.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 2317
32.1 Mpixels/sec 		5332
74.0 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2263
2.33 MB/sec 		5471
5.62 MB/sec
Dijkstra 2760
1.87 MTE/sec 		6029
4.08 MTE/sec
SQLite 1993
55.3 Krows/sec 		5118
141.9 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2019
9.17 MB/sec 		4918
22.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 2884
2.61 MElements/sec 		5251
4.76 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2450
76.6 Mpixels/sec 		5319
166.2 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 2374
63.1 Mpixels/sec 		5301
140.8 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 4703
323.4 functions/sec 		6458
444.1 functions/sec
Camera 2609
7.24 images/sec 		5884
16.3 images/sec
SGEMM 796
16.8 Gflops 		6067
128.3 Gflops
SFFT 1133
2.82 Gflops 		5903
14.7 Gflops
N-Body Physics 1326
990.6 Kpairs/sec 		5501
4.11 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 1684
246.0 Kpixels/sec 		5047
737.0 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 2778
8132.6 FPS 		6102
17863.8 FPS
HDR 2436
8.83 Mpixels/sec 		6435
23.3 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1339
23.5 Mpixels/sec 		5820
102.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3496
29.9 Words/sec 		6261
53.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 2607
761.5 Ksubwindows/sec 		5433
1.59 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 1316
3.65 GB/sec 		5711
15.8 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4853
89.2 ns 		6256
14.4 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 1020
5.45 GB/sec 		5099
27.2 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (Early 2009) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Multi-Core Score 3594 18097
AES 253
195.7 MB/sec 		16755
12.6 GB/sec
LZMA 6011
9.39 MB/sec 		23157
36.2 MB/sec
JPEG 5810
46.7 Mpixels/sec 		28304
227.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4106
56.9 Mpixels/sec 		22313
309.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4353
4.47 MB/sec 		21911
22.5 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4190
2.84 MTE/sec 		21947
14.9 MTE/sec
SQLite 3871
107.3 Krows/sec 		10970
304.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3844
17.5 MB/sec 		20635
93.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5648
5.12 MElements/sec 		14376
13.0 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4595
143.6 Mpixels/sec 		21722
678.7 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3873
102.9 Mpixels/sec 		21905
582.0 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 9176
630.9 functions/sec 		13733
944.2 functions/sec
Camera 5154
14.3 images/sec 		27624
76.6 images/sec
SGEMM 1583
33.5 Gflops 		16104
340.4 Gflops
SFFT 2273
5.67 Gflops 		25767
64.2 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2690
2.01 Mpairs/sec 		23830
17.8 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3415
498.8 Kpixels/sec 		23467
3.43 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 5645
16527.2 FPS 		33230
97277.0 FPS
HDR 4504
16.3 Mpixels/sec 		27180
98.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2544
44.6 Mpixels/sec 		24823
434.9 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4854
41.5 Words/sec 		15754
134.8 Words/sec
Face Detection 5209
1.52 Msubwindows/sec 		25843
7.55 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 1401
3.88 GB/sec 		6753
18.7 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4988
86.8 ns 		6270
14.5 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 953
5.09 GB/sec 		5471
29.2 GB/sec

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