To see how well the new quad-core iMacs perform, we ran our overall system performance test suite, Speedmark 6, and the results were quite impressive.
In fact, with a Speedmark 6 score of 209, the 2.66GHz Core i5 iMac is the fastest standard configuration Mac we’ve ever tested.
It was three percent faster overall than the 2.66GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro, and 1.5 percent faster overall than the 2.26GHz 8-core Mac Pro.