MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) vs iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 3066 4459
Multi-Core Score 6159 13565
Geekbench 4.4.1 Pro Geekbench 4.4.4 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 10.16 (Build 20G1345) macOS 13.0.1 (Build 22A400)
Model MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Processor Intel Core i5-3210M @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i5-7400 @ 3.00 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 2 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 3072 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-6F01561E16C75D06 MacBookPro9,2 Apple Inc. Mac-77F17D7DA9285301 iMac18,2
BIOS Apple Inc. 233.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. 499.40.2.0.0
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 3066 4459
AES 1417
1.07 GB/sec 		2652
2.00 GB/sec
LZMA 1805
2.82 MB/sec 		3453
5.39 MB/sec
JPEG 3068
24.7 Mpixels/sec 		4460
35.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3041
42.2 Mpixels/sec 		3623
50.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2309
2.37 MB/sec 		3983
4.09 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3625
2.45 MTE/sec 		4303
2.91 MTE/sec
SQLite 2528
70.1 Krows/sec 		3611
100.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2771
12.6 MB/sec 		3588
16.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4102
3.72 MElements/sec 		5316
4.82 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2920
91.3 Mpixels/sec 		3818
119.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3712
98.6 Mpixels/sec 		5537
147.1 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 4503
309.6 functions/sec 		7842
539.2 functions/sec
Camera 3279
9.09 images/sec 		4522
12.5 images/sec
SGEMM 1671
35.3 Gflops 		4719
99.8 Gflops
SFFT 3435
8.57 Gflops 		4876
12.2 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2871
2.14 Mpairs/sec 		4185
3.13 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2718
397.0 Kpixels/sec 		3815
557.1 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3849
11267.7 FPS 		4926
14422.7 FPS
HDR 3159
11.5 Mpixels/sec 		4824
17.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3313
58.0 Mpixels/sec 		4755
83.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 2940
25.2 Words/sec 		4816
41.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 2996
875.2 Ksubwindows/sec 		4336
1.27 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3522
9.76 GB/sec 		4325
12.0 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5189
83.4 ns 		6503
66.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2821
15.1 GB/sec 		4270
22.8 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 6159 13565
AES 4845
3.65 GB/sec 		12505
9.42 GB/sec
LZMA 7299
11.4 MB/sec 		13032
20.4 MB/sec
JPEG 8034
64.6 Mpixels/sec 		16780
135.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 7156
99.2 Mpixels/sec 		13406
185.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5368
5.52 MB/sec 		16097
16.5 MB/sec
Dijkstra 8782
5.94 MTE/sec 		13390
9.06 MTE/sec
SQLite 5338
148.0 Krows/sec 		14684
407.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5791
26.3 MB/sec 		13844
62.9 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6560
5.94 MElements/sec 		20384
18.5 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 6137
191.8 Mpixels/sec 		15122
472.5 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 7748
205.9 Mpixels/sec 		17041
452.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 11063
760.7 functions/sec 		28428
1.95 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 8066
22.4 images/sec 		16931
46.9 images/sec
SGEMM 3182
67.3 Gflops 		12828
271.2 Gflops
SFFT 6688
16.7 Gflops 		18420
45.9 Gflops
N-Body Physics 6199
4.63 Mpairs/sec 		15995
11.9 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 5981
873.4 Kpixels/sec 		13267
1.94 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 9243
27059.0 FPS 		18325
53643.9 FPS
HDR 6995
25.4 Mpixels/sec 		16208
58.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6365
111.5 Mpixels/sec 		17753
311.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6096
52.2 Words/sec 		11472
98.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 6699
1.96 Msubwindows/sec 		16457
4.81 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4408
12.2 GB/sec 		4708
13.0 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5181
83.6 ns 		6315
68.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3444
18.4 GB/sec 		4475
23.9 GB/sec

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