Apple iMac 3.06GHz unboxing, hands-on, and benchmarking

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.

Gallery: 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]

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