IMac i7 and i5 Benchmark results on Geekbench

Question

Here are some recent Benchmark results of the new iMacs :
Core i7 : http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/search?q=iMac+i7&commit=Search
core i5 : http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/search?q=imac+i5&commit=Search
And the C2D High end @3.33 Ghz : http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/183324
The results may vary on your RAM, but it looks really good
The i7 average is about 45% better than the C2D, Good News !
And we can see that the difference between the i5 and i7 still remains the same, about 7-8%.
Enjoy your iMacs
Message was edited by: Floriferous
Message was edited by: Floriferous

Answer 1

I suspect in 2010, using multi-threading, Grand Central multi-cores, and even OpenCL GPU assist will help differentiate products. Those productivity apps (or utilities and games) that do support any or all new functionality will become more desirable than those that do not. This is clearly the future-proofing advantage that people see in buying the 2.7 GHz and 2.8 GHz quad core machines now; they may not be faster today than 3 GHz or 3.3 GHz Core 2 Duo in some things, but tomorrow is another story. Will be nice when Apple's Pro Apps such as Final Cut or even Aperture and Adobe CS's flagship products like Photoshop are tuned for these quad processor configurations. With six-core desktop processors on the horizon, even more pressure on vendors to do it right.