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How does your Mac stack up - Geekbench thread.

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Just adding the new iMac to the results - I'll update the table in a bit.

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Just adding the new iMac to the results - I'll update the table in a bit.

These new iMacs are pretty impressive. Your quad-core (8 thread) iMac (32-bit score) is very close to topping my 8-core (16-thread) Mac Pro.

Of course your new iMac's 3.4ghz cpu speed is way faster than my Mac Pro's 2.26ghz cpu speed.

That's one speedy iMac. So what's the deal with your older iMac?...which from the scores is certainly no slowpoke either. You selling it, gifting it to some lucky family member, or keeping it?

- Nick
 
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These new iMacs are pretty impressive. Your quad-core (8 thread) iMac (32-bit score) is very close to topping my 8-core (16-thread) Mac Pro.

Of course your new iMac's 3.4ghz cpu speed is way faster than my Mac Pro's 2.26ghz cpu speed.

That's one speedy iMac. So what's the deal with your older iMac?...which from the scores is certainly no slowpoke either. You selling it, gifting it to some lucky family member, or keeping it?

- Nick

The other machine is my MacBook Pro. This is my first iMac. This completes the switchover in this household that started in January. :)

Yes - really speedy and responsive. I was curious to see how close it would come to your 8-core Pro machine - but it still didn't match up. I posted the 64-bit result as well just so folks would know what to expect.

Just set it up tonight but so far - very happy with it. Love looking at my Aperture images on that screen.
 

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The other machine is my MacBook Pro. This is my first iMac. This completes the switchover in this household that started in January. :)

Yes - really speedy and responsive. I was curious to see how close it would come to your 8-core Pro machine - but it still didn't match up. I posted the 64-bit result as well just so folks would know what to expect.

Sorry...I'm getting confused...I thought that your other computer was an iMac...but now I see it's a MacBook Pro. That MacBook Pro has some pretty nice numbers as well!:) In fact...your MacBook Pro's score is better than some older Mac Pro's. Pretty cool to have a laptop more powerful than some Mac Pro's (at least the cpu score)!:)

Yeah...your iMac's 64-bit numbers do exceed my Mac Pro. But then if I had the "paid for" 64-bit version of Geekbench...I guess my numbers would be higher as well. $12.99 for the "full" version of Geekbench is not too bad...I just may get it. Too bad Geekbench doesn't do video/graphics scores!:(

- Nick
 
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Sorry...I'm getting confused...I thought that your other computer was an iMac...but now I see it's a MacBook Pro. That MacBook Pro has some pretty nice numbers as well!:) In fact...your MacBook Pro's score is better than some older Mac Pro's. Pretty cool to have a laptop more powerful than some Mac Pro's (at least the cpu score)!:)

Yeah...your iMac's 64-bit numbers do exceed my Mac Pro. But then if I had the "paid for" 64-bit version of Geekbench...I guess my numbers would be higher as well. $12.99 for the "full" version of Geekbench is not too bad...I just may get it. Too bad Geekbench doesn't do video/graphics scores!:(

- Nick

- Nick

Yes - I've been very pleased with this MBP - really that's an understatement.

The fact that I now have two really good performing machines is mostly just a happy byproduct of the fact that I made the switch to Mac this year - coincident with the jump to Sandy Bridge. I had the Core Duo MBP initially - but Apple let me exchange it for the Sandy Bridge. I should be pretty well set for machines for a while now. Just waiting for some Thunderbolt drives to show up. :)
 
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2010)
Summary

Section Description Score Geekbench Score
Geekbench 2.1.10 for Mac OS X x86 (32-bit)
Integer Processor integer performance 7504 9316
Floating Point Processor floating point performance 15698
Memory Memory performance 4058
Stream Memory bandwidth performance 3847
System Information

Operating System Mac OS X 10.6.5 (Build 10H574)
Model iMac (27-inch Mid 2010) Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F2238BAE iMac11,3
Processor Intel Core i7 870
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 30 Stepping 5
Processor Frequency 2.93 GHz Processors 1
Cores 4 Threads 8
L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB
L2 Cache 256 KB L3 Cache 8.00 MB
Memory 12.0 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 FSB 4.80 GHz
BIOS Apple Inc. IM112.88Z.0057.B00.1005031455
 
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Updated. The one thing that jumps out is the step function performance increase in the MacBookPros - between 2010 and 2011. The iMacs show a more gradual increase in performance. I played with a few plots - but the data pool is still too thin to do anything meaningful.

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This is an overall plot of the data - minus Nick's result. I tossed him from the graph as an outlier since he skews the results with that powerful Mac Pro of his. :)

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I like this second table you have done, now i'm in second place :D *Evil Laugh*

- Simon
 

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wow, some very interesting plots youve done there brian. kudos for the graphs again.

09/10 seem quite similar...
 
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I dont even get a mention in the latest update :( 3327 was my score. 2 points under Rob ???
 
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Yeah you're definitely there pal

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lol i am now with a edit and wrong spelling ;P
Definitely different spelling from the 1st post . . . . .
 
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Hehe, maybe you have Tattooed Toes? I shall call them "Tattoed" :p

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lol i am now with a edit and wrong spelling ;P
Definitely different spelling from the 1st post . . . . .

Ooops - again. Tried to cover my tracks - of course marking up why I edited the post doesn't really help with that. ;) Sorry about that - I have no idea why you dropped off to begin with - could be because I'm now using two different machines - and don't quite have that workflow down to a solid science yet. Or - if that excuse doesn't work - I'm really tired - hard to sleep with this stupid cough!

Anyway - it's fixed correctly this time - although if I get some energy- I need to fix that graph.
 
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Here is mine

2011 MBP 15" with a momentus XT 500gb HDD

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Well you are all determined to knock me down both those lists now aren't ya! ;)

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Interesting to see the difference between the 2010 and 2011 model. I wouldn't have thought there would be such a gap.

Sorry Buzzard :p
 

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