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

Geekbench Scores

iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015) iMac (Late 2009)
Single-Core Score 4411 2033
Multi-Core Score 13227 3459
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System Information

iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015) iMac (Late 2009)
Operating System macOS 10.12.4 (Build 16E195) macOS 10.13.6 (Build 17G65)
Model iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015) iMac (Late 2009)
Processor Intel Core i5-6500 @ 3.19 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores 		Intel Core 2 Duo E7600 @ 3.06 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 94 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10
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 3072 KB
L3 Cache 6144 KB 0 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-65CE76090165799A iMac17,1 Apple Inc. Mac-F2268CC8
BIOS Apple Inc. IM171.88Z.0105.B00.1509221819 Apple Inc. IM101.88Z.00D0.B00.1802021905
Memory 16.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 4.00 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015) iMac (Late 2009)
Single-Core Score 4411 2033
AES 2770
2.09 GB/sec 		126
97.3 MB/sec
LZMA 3560
5.56 MB/sec 		2982
4.66 MB/sec
JPEG 4197
33.8 Mpixels/sec 		2930
23.6 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4079
56.6 Mpixels/sec 		2288
31.7 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4138
4.25 MB/sec 		2220
2.28 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4661
3.15 MTE/sec 		2483
1.68 MTE/sec
SQLite 3915
108.5 Krows/sec 		1932
53.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3906
17.7 MB/sec 		2040
9.26 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5128
4.65 MElements/sec 		2815
2.55 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4121
128.8 Mpixels/sec 		2457
76.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4544
120.7 Mpixels/sec 		1945
51.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7531
517.8 functions/sec 		4407
303.0 functions/sec
Camera 4815
13.4 images/sec 		2589
7.18 images/sec
SGEMM 4587
97.0 Gflops 		794
16.8 Gflops
SFFT 4957
12.4 Gflops 		1133
2.83 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4386
3.28 Mpairs/sec 		1341
1.00 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4034
589.2 Kpixels/sec 		1754
256.2 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4425
12955.0 FPS 		2860
8374.7 FPS
HDR 5397
19.6 Mpixels/sec 		2457
8.91 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4736
83.0 Mpixels/sec 		1322
23.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4205
36.0 Words/sec 		2554
21.9 Words/sec
Face Detection 3931
1.15 Msubwindows/sec 		2604
760.8 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4666
12.9 GB/sec 		1277
3.54 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5020
86.2 ns 		5130
84.4 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4096
21.9 GB/sec 		1012
5.41 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015) iMac (Late 2009)
Multi-Core Score 13227 3459
AES 13463
10.1 GB/sec 		253
195.6 MB/sec
LZMA 13240
20.7 MB/sec 		5370
8.39 MB/sec
JPEG 16511
132.9 Mpixels/sec 		5794
46.6 Mpixels/sec
Canny 14019
194.4 Mpixels/sec 		4086
56.7 Mpixels/sec
Lua 15822
16.3 MB/sec 		4382
4.50 MB/sec
Dijkstra 13600
9.20 MTE/sec 		3888
2.63 MTE/sec
SQLite 12626
350.0 Krows/sec 		3818
105.9 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 13602
61.8 MB/sec 		3945
17.9 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 18083
16.4 MElements/sec 		5553
5.03 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 14234
444.8 Mpixels/sec 		4909
153.4 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 14187
376.9 Mpixels/sec 		2985
79.3 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 25568
1.76 Kfunctions/sec 		8190
563.2 functions/sec
Camera 17429
48.3 images/sec 		5149
14.3 images/sec
SGEMM 12654
267.5 Gflops 		1570
33.2 Gflops
SFFT 18677
46.6 Gflops 		2263
5.64 Gflops
N-Body Physics 15615
11.7 Mpairs/sec 		2689
2.01 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 13346
1.95 Mpixels/sec 		3441
502.6 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 18304
53583.7 FPS 		5559
16276.0 FPS
HDR 18264
66.2 Mpixels/sec 		4532
16.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 15182
266.0 Mpixels/sec 		2548
44.6 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 11379
97.4 Words/sec 		3351
28.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 16509
4.82 Msubwindows/sec 		5169
1.51 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5326
14.8 GB/sec 		1341
3.72 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5250
82.5 ns 		5098
84.9 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4503
24.0 GB/sec 		960
5.13 GB/sec

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