iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) vs Mac Pro (Early 2009)

Geekbench Scores

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac Pro (Early 2009)
Single-Core Score 5703 1877
Multi-Core Score 19678 12489
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System Information

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac Pro (Early 2009)
Operating System macOS 10.13 (Build 17A315i) macOS 10.13.3 (Build 17D47)
Model iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) iMac14,2
Processor Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.20 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Xeon E5520 @ 2.26 GHz
2 Processors, 8 Cores, 16 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 26 Stepping 5
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 8192 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 iMac18,3 Apple Inc. Mac-27ADBB7B4CEE8E61 iMac14,2
BIOS Apple Inc. IM183.88Z.0147.B01.1706251744 Apple Inc. IM142.88Z.0123.B00.1708211454
Memory 64.00 GB 2133 MHz DDR4 12.00 GB 1066 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac Pro (Early 2009)
Single-Core Score 5703 1877
AES 3701
2.79 GB/sec 		94
73.2 MB/sec
LZMA 5145
8.04 MB/sec 		2272
3.55 MB/sec
JPEG 5716
46.0 Mpixels/sec 		2182
17.6 Mpixels/sec
Canny 5230
72.5 Mpixels/sec 		2052
28.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5656
5.81 MB/sec 		1658
1.70 MB/sec
Dijkstra 6521
4.41 MTE/sec 		2747
1.86 MTE/sec
SQLite 4953
137.3 Krows/sec 		1615
44.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4927
22.4 MB/sec 		1597
7.25 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6578
5.96 MElements/sec 		2446
2.22 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 5370
167.8 Mpixels/sec 		1938
60.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5663
150.5 Mpixels/sec 		2154
57.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 9540
656.0 functions/sec 		3563
245.0 functions/sec
Camera 6047
16.8 images/sec 		2242
6.22 images/sec
SGEMM 6018
127.2 Gflops 		616
13.0 Gflops
SFFT 6307
15.7 Gflops 		1476
3.68 Gflops
N-Body Physics 5508
4.11 Mpairs/sec 		1375
1.03 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 5035
735.3 Kpixels/sec 		1494
218.2 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 6335
18545.0 FPS 		2430
7114.8 FPS
HDR 6858
24.9 Mpixels/sec 		1790
6.49 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6085
106.6 Mpixels/sec 		1887
33.1 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6418
54.9 Words/sec 		2563
21.9 Words/sec
Face Detection 5481
1.60 Msubwindows/sec 		2037
595.2 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5581
15.5 GB/sec 		1636
4.53 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6329
68.4 ns 		5576
77.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4626
24.7 GB/sec 		994
5.31 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac Pro (Early 2009)
Multi-Core Score 19678 12489
AES 15988
12.0 GB/sec 		797
615.3 MB/sec
LZMA 23123
36.1 MB/sec 		20607
32.2 MB/sec
JPEG 27767
223.4 Mpixels/sec 		20920
168.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 22378
310.3 Mpixels/sec 		17337
240.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 22123
22.7 MB/sec 		14874
15.3 MB/sec
Dijkstra 22772
15.4 MTE/sec 		20268
13.7 MTE/sec
SQLite 16479
456.9 Krows/sec 		7849
217.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 20186
91.6 MB/sec 		13122
59.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 23428
21.2 MElements/sec 		16961
15.4 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 21683
677.5 Mpixels/sec 		16405
512.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 22305
592.6 Mpixels/sec 		15393
408.9 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 44582
3.07 Kfunctions/sec 		30061
2.07 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 27805
77.1 images/sec 		19631
54.4 images/sec
SGEMM 17275
365.2 Gflops 		4836
102.2 Gflops
SFFT 24811
61.9 Gflops 		12849
32.0 Gflops
N-Body Physics 23477
17.5 Mpairs/sec 		12526
9.36 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 23353
3.41 Mpixels/sec 		12431
1.82 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 32978
96539.5 FPS 		22985
67285.8 FPS
HDR 27031
98.0 Mpixels/sec 		16493
59.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 25407
445.1 Mpixels/sec 		15727
275.5 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 15090
129.1 Words/sec 		15094
129.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 25530
7.46 Msubwindows/sec 		18646
5.45 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 6212
17.2 GB/sec 		4383
12.1 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6242
69.4 ns 		3409
127.0 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4883
26.1 GB/sec 		2949
15.8 GB/sec

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