Eight-Core Mac Pro Performance

rob-ART morgan over at Bare Feats received an eight-core Mac Pro last night (lucky guy) and ran some interesting and exhaustive benchmarks on it. One of the benchmarks he used was Geekbench 2, and he was nice enough to submit the results to the Geekbench Browser.

I thought it might be interesting to take a quick look at his results from his eight-core Mac Pro and compare them against a four-core Mac Pro. Here are the overall scores for both machines, along with scores for each benchmark section:

Overall Performance

Mac Pro
Intel Quad-Core Xeon @ 3.00GHz
8735
 
Mac Pro
Intel Dual-Core Xeon @ 3.00GHz
5763
 

Integer Performance

Mac Pro
Intel Quad-Core Xeon @ 3.00GHz
8977
 
Mac Pro
Intel Dual-Core Xeon @ 3.00GHz
5642
 

Floating Point Performance

Mac Pro
Intel Quad-Core Xeon @ 3.00GHz
14158
 
Mac Pro
Intel Dual-Core Xeon @ 3.00GHz
8923
 

Memory Performance

Mac Pro
Intel Quad-Core Xeon @ 3.00GHz
2281
 
Mac Pro
Intel Dual-Core Xeon @ 3.00GHz
2363
 

Stream Performance

Mac Pro
Intel Quad-Core Xeon @ 3.00GHz
1822
 
Mac Pro
Intel Dual-Core Xeon @ 3.00GHz
1932
 

If you really want to drill down into the benchmark-by-benchmark differences between the two Mac Pros, you can look at a detailed comparison between the two over on the Geekbench Browser. For most tests, the eight-core Mac Pro is as fast as the four-core Mac Pro on the single-threaded tests, but almost twice as fast as the four-core Mac Pro on the multi-threaded tests.

In other words, if you've got applications that'll take advantage of the eight cores the high-end Mac Pro now offers, it's going to fly!


 
John Poole is the founder of Primate Labs and lives in Toronto, Ontario with his wife Deborah. You can find John on Twitter or .