[DarkestRitual]

Core i5 iMac arrives: first benchmarks | Electronista

Pretty sweet. I may have to get one of these when I can afford it.

[pigoo3]

Thanks for the link...been interested in seeing what the benchmarks for these puppies look like.

- Nick

[ZorroAMG]

What a silly comparison. An out of date previous gen iMac vs a new Quad core. Are there any tests that actually mean anything to the people that pay attention to these tests?

A high end 24" 3.06 with 4gb vs this machine is what would have been useful.

[DarkestRitual]

I agree, the comparison is goofy, but you have the scores for those tests, and you can find the scores for the 24 inch with 3.06GHz processor too. Here, lmgtfy


Apple 24-inch iMac | Apple | Mac|Life | Mac|Life
24in 3.06GHz iMac, July 2009

Xbench Test:
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.6 (9G2030)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model iMac9,1
Drive Type WDC WD1001FALS-40K1B0

CPU Test 200.73
GCD Loop 357.60 18.85 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 173.42 4.12 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 133.91 4.42 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 256.61 44.68 Mops/sec
Thread Test 386.73
Computation 474.91 9.62 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 326.16 14.03 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 195.70
System 249.23
Allocate 397.74 1.46 Malloc/sec
Fill 197.82 9618.65 MB/sec
Copy 223.83 4623.02 MB/sec
Stream 161.10
Copy 153.84 3177.43 MB/sec
Scale 152.68 3154.28 MB/sec
Add 170.54 3632.81 MB/sec
Triad 169.05 3616.36 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 246.56
Line 228.61 15.22 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 297.11 88.70 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 241.86 19.71 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 241.12 6.08 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 234.89 14.69 Kchars/sec

[idrinorbarsaku]

A new iMac would be my dream! This is the only, besides the Mac Pro, desktop computer that I would allow to sit on my desk! It's just beautiful!

[pigoo3]

Originally Posted by ZorroAMG

What a silly comparison. An out of date previous gen iMac vs a new Quad core. Are there any tests that actually mean anything to the people that pay attention to these tests?

A high end 24" 3.06 with 4gb vs this machine is what would have been useful.

I think that the important point of this article isn't the comparison...it's the quad-core benchmarks themselves. You can take the quad-core benchmarks, and then do an internet search for benchmarks from previous reviews to compare with.

But I do agree a 2.4ghz core 2 duo 24" iMac wasn't the best choice for a comparison. Maybe it was the only other iMac the reviewer had handy tocompare against the quad-core iMac.

- Nick

[yamawho]

Most tech sites I visit are mostly on hardware and test using windows. Since Mac's these days run intel cpu's and chipsets, one might consider those results. Also, most of the tests they use change over time. This makes comparison difficult with older hardware ...

I personnaly have not owned a quad core PC yet, the most so far is an AMD 720 with 3 cores. Gaming and most other apps do not yet use 4 cores and 6 cores will be out soon ...

[DarkestRitual]

Here, new link comparing all 4 current iMacs... looks like the i7 gives a pretty significant bump over even the i5, which dominates the 2 core chips too.

Timon Royer Mediendesign Blog Archive Apple 27″ iMac (late 2009) Core i5 and Core i7 benchmarks are out