iMac (Early 2008) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)

Geekbench Scores

iMac (Early 2008) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 1698 4821
Multi-Core Score 2952 13917
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System Information

iMac (Early 2008) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G31) macOS 10.12.6 (Build 16G29)
Model iMac (Early 2008) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo E8135 @ 2.40 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores 		Intel Core i5-7500 @ 3.40 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6 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 6144 KB 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 0 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F226BEC8 PVT Apple Inc. Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 iMac18,3
BIOS Apple Inc. IM81.88Z.00C1.B00.0802091538 Apple Inc. IM183.88Z.0145.B09.1706181606
Memory 4.00 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM 8.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

iMac (Early 2008) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 1698 4821
AES 97
75.4 MB/sec 		3139
2.36 GB/sec
LZMA 2378
3.71 MB/sec 		4007
6.26 MB/sec
JPEG 2268
18.3 Mpixels/sec 		4660
37.5 Mpixels/sec
Canny 1837
25.5 Mpixels/sec 		4462
61.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 1742
1.79 MB/sec 		4631
4.76 MB/sec
Dijkstra 2357
1.60 MTE/sec 		5208
3.52 MTE/sec
SQLite 1534
42.6 Krows/sec 		4289
118.9 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 1625
7.38 MB/sec 		4169
18.9 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 2200
1.99 MElements/sec 		5555
5.03 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 1933
60.4 Mpixels/sec 		4249
132.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 1838
48.8 Mpixels/sec 		4531
120.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 3578
246.0 functions/sec 		8061
554.3 functions/sec
Camera 2014
5.59 images/sec 		5055
14.0 images/sec
SGEMM 618
13.1 Gflops 		5019
106.1 Gflops
SFFT 896
2.23 Gflops 		5452
13.6 Gflops
N-Body Physics 1028
768.0 Kpairs/sec 		4655
3.48 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 1338
195.4 Kpixels/sec 		4263
622.6 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 2194
6423.4 FPS 		5386
15768.3 FPS
HDR 1932
7.00 Mpixels/sec 		5825
21.1 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1039
18.2 Mpixels/sec 		5092
89.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 2741
23.5 Words/sec 		5301
45.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 1983
579.5 Ksubwindows/sec 		4649
1.36 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 1267
3.51 GB/sec 		4381
12.1 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4649
93.1 ns 		6486
66.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 942
5.03 GB/sec 		4150
22.2 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (Early 2008) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 2952 13917
AES 199
153.5 MB/sec 		12819
9.65 GB/sec
LZMA 4707
7.35 MB/sec 		14591
22.8 MB/sec
JPEG 4574
36.8 Mpixels/sec 		18144
146.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3426
47.5 Mpixels/sec 		14810
205.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3441
3.54 MB/sec 		17043
17.5 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3658
2.48 MTE/sec 		13426
9.09 MTE/sec
SQLite 3086
85.6 Krows/sec 		14879
412.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3202
14.5 MB/sec 		13834
62.8 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4442
4.02 MElements/sec 		19753
17.9 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3834
119.8 Mpixels/sec 		15447
482.7 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3141
83.5 Mpixels/sec 		13784
366.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7157
492.1 functions/sec 		29026
2.00 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 4062
11.3 images/sec 		18805
52.1 images/sec
SGEMM 1247
26.4 Gflops 		10882
230.0 Gflops
SFFT 1782
4.44 Gflops 		20749
51.7 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2101
1.57 Mpairs/sec 		16078
12.0 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2705
395.1 Kpixels/sec 		14530
2.12 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4407
12901.8 FPS 		20028
58631.8 FPS
HDR 3684
13.4 Mpixels/sec 		18953
68.7 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1996
35.0 Mpixels/sec 		18538
324.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4107
35.1 Words/sec 		11790
100.9 Words/sec
Face Detection 4071
1.19 Msubwindows/sec 		17995
5.26 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 1391
3.86 GB/sec 		4641
12.9 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4657
93.0 ns 		6231
69.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 952
5.09 GB/sec 		3741
20.0 GB/sec

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