Looks like a great result for a passiv cooled device.
I'm wondering why it does a lot less track that the intel, when they they it's faster than an intel cpu. Let's asume it 8 cores vs 4 core. When you double the Apple numbers it's a bit faster, but not something like the 2-3 times that you read a lot. Which i7 is in your imac?
Was the buffer size and sound device the same for both?