Look what arrived on our doorstep today! That's right -- the shiny, expensive
new iMac that's now equipped with that funky
custom and / or overclocked 3.06GHz CPU. Take a look at us wildly unboxing and handling the behemoth in the gallery below, and get a load of its fairly impressive Xbench scores after the break.
Apple iMac 3.06GHz unboxing, hands-on, and benchmarking
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- All machines tested with Xbench 1.3.
- All machines tested were using Leopard.
- You can check the bold Xbench scores to compare the cumulative results for each test.
| | MBP (2.5GHz Penryn) | Air (1.6GHz Core 2 Duo) | MacBook (2.2GHz Core 2 Duo) | iMac (2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, previous gen.)
| iMac (3.06GHz Core 2 Duo) |
| CPU |
169.23 |
79.98 |
126.66 |
138.58 |
188.54 |
| GCD Loop |
15.33 Mops/s |
9.67 Mops/s |
13.43 Mops/s |
14.91 Mops/s |
18.90 Mops/s |
| Floating Point Basic |
3.37 Gflop/s |
2.03 Gflop/s |
2.95 Gflop/s |
3.23 Gflop/s |
4.12 Gflop/s |
| vecLib FFT |
3.93 Gflop/s |
1.71 Gflop/s |
3.36 Gflop/s |
3.66 Gflop/s |
4.65 Gflop/s |
| Floating Point Library |
36.64 Mops/s |
12.82 Mops/s |
17.80 Mops/s |
19.43 Mops/s |
44.76 Mops/s |
| Thread Test |
275.13 |
148.81 |
186.4 |
208.77 |
314.45 |
| Computation |
6.93 Mops/s |
2.77 Mops/s |
3.58 Mops/s |
3.56 Mops/s |
8.50 Mops/s |
| Lock Contention |
9.90 Mlocks/s |
7.04 Mlocks/s |
8.48 Mlocks/s |
11.06 Mlocks/s |
10.81 Mlocks/s |
| | MBP (2.5GHz Penryn) | Air (1.6GHz Core 2 Duo) | MacBook (2.2GHz Core 2 Duo) | iMac (2.4GHz) | iMac (3.06GHz Core 2 Duo) |
| Memory Test |
168.11 |
140.42 |
150.23 |
150.82 |
211.78 |
| System |
183.01 |
143.51 |
158.95 |
151.56 |
247.04 |
| Allocate |
922.99 Kalloc/s |
718.86 Kalloc/s |
856.78 Kalloc/s |
657.80 Kalloc/s |
374.06 Malloc/s |
| Fill |
7424.09 MB/se |
5770.30 MB/s |
6480.99 MB/s |
6606.88 MB/s |
9667.21 MB/s |
| Copy |
3522.10 MB/s |
2802.78 MB/s |
2914.92 MB/s |
3014.12 MB/s |
4651.03 MB/s |
| Stream |
155.45 |
137.46 |
142.41 |
150.08 |
185.33 |
| Copy |
3059.86 MB/s |
2621.64 MB/s |
2799.64 MB/s |
2926.68 MB/s |
3653.38 MB/s |
| Scale |
3008.89 MB/s |
2602.03 MB/s |
2797.66 MB/s |
3022.24 MB/s |
3652.08 MB/s |
| Add |
3525.00 MB/s |
3230.58 MB/s |
3196.17 MB/s |
3364.41 MB/s |
4165.23 MB/s |
| Triad |
3523.21 MB/s |
3199.37 MB/s |
3211.97 MB/s |
3328.48 MB/s |
4147.22 MB/s |
| | MBP (2.5GHz Penryn) | Air (1.6GHz Core 2 Duo) | MacBook (2.2GHz Core 2 Duo) | iMac (2.4GHz) | iMac (3.06GHz Core 2 Duo) |
| Quartz Graphics Test |
198.29 |
96.89 |
154.32 |
193.4 |
228.36 |
| Line |
12.43 Klines/s |
6.94 Klines/s |
9.69 Klines/s |
11.64 Klines/s |
15.27 Klines/s |
| Rectangle |
70.01 Krects/s |
32.23 Krects/s |
51.66 Krects/s |
70.02 Krects/s |
252.7 Krects/s |
| Circle |
15.29 Kcircles/s |
7.22 Kcircles/s |
11.54 Kcircles/s |
15.29 Kcircles/s |
16.46 Kcircles/s |
| Bezier |
4.92 Kbeziers/s |
2.49 Kbeziers/s |
3.79 Kbeziers/s |
4.51 Kbeziers/s |
5.64 Kbeziers/s |
| Text |
12.17 Kchars/s |
5.53 Kchars/s |
10.39 Kchars/s |
12.66 Kchars/s |
15.06 Kchars/s |
| OpenGL Graphics Test |
165.99 |
17.26 |
23.36 |
152.66 |
201.68 |
| Spinning Squares |
210.57 frames/s |
21.89 frames/s |
29.64 frames/s |
193.65 frames/s |
255.84 frames/s |
| User Interface Test |
326.63 |
105.81 |
244.28 |
335.18 |
443.26 |
| Elements |
1.50 Krefresh/s |
485.60 refresh/s |
1.12 Krefresh/s |
1.54 Krefresh/s |
2.03 Krefresh/s |
| | MBP (2.5GHz Penryn) | Air (1.6GHz Core 2 Duo) | MacBook (2.2GHz Core 2 Duo) | iMac (2.4GHz) | iMac (3.06GHz Core 2 Duo) |
| Disk Test |
33.08 |
24.05 |
39.64 |
80.72 |
78.47 |
| Sequential |
60.60 |
42.21 |
66.07 |
115.15 |
106.39 |
| Uncached Write |
52.17 MB/s [4K blocks] |
30.96 MB/s [4K blocks] |
53.34 MB/s [4K blocks] |
72.17 MB/s [4K blocks] |
84.32 MB/sec [4K blocks] |
| Uncached Write |
47.88 MB/s [256K blocks] |
31.19 MB/s [256K blocks] |
47.63 MB/s [256K blocks] |
66.51 MB/s [256K blocks] |
77.36 MB/sec [256K blocks] |
| Uncached Read |
9.89 MB/s [4K blocks] |
7.27 MB/s [4K blocks] |
10.83 MB/s [4K blocks] |
27.81 MB/s [4K blocks] |
17.43 MB/sec [4K blocks] |
| Uncached Read |
39.17 MB/s [256K blocks] |
30.42 MB/s [256K blocks] |
49.62 MB/s [256K blocks] |
69.83 MB/s [256K blocks] |
80.85 MB/sec [256K blocks] |
| Random |
22.75 |
16.81 |
28.31 |
62.13 |
62.16 |
| Uncached Write |
0.81 MB/s [4K blocks] |
0.57 MB/s [4K blocks] |
1.03 MB/s [4K blocks] |
2.67 MB/s [4K blocks] |
2.51 MB/sec [4K blocks] |
| Uncached Write |
18.56 MB/s [256K blocks] |
18.35 MB/s [256K blocks] |
22.73 MB/s [256K blocks] |
48.45 MB/s [256K blocks] |
62.96 MB/sec [256K blocks] |
| Uncached Read |
0.41 MB/s [4K blocks] |
0.35 MB/s [4K blocks] |
0.48 MB/s [4K blocks] |
0.63 MB/s [4K blocks] |
0.66 MB/sec [4K blocks] |
| Uncached Read |
18.44 MB/s [256K blocks] |
13.28 MB/s [256K blocks] |
19.31 MB/s [256K blocks] |
27.08 MB/s [256K blocks] |
28.77 MB/sec [256K blocks] |
