Mac mini (Late 2012) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Single-Core Score 3399 5259
Multi-Core Score 11470 19132
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System Information

Mac mini (Late 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G1510) macOS 10.13.4 (Build 17E199)
Model Mac mini (Late 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Processor Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 2.30 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.01 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 94 Stepping 3
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 6144 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F65AE981FFA204ED Macmini6,2 Apple Inc. Mac-B809C3757DA9BB8D 1.0
BIOS Apple Inc. MM61.88Z.0106.B12.1702171720 Apple Inc. IM171.88Z.0151.B00.1802080854
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 0 MHz RAM

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Single-Core Score 3399 5259
AES 2782
2.10 GB/sec 		3558
2.68 GB/sec
LZMA 3527
5.51 MB/sec 		4344
6.79 MB/sec
JPEG 3660
29.5 Mpixels/sec 		5610
45.1 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3189
44.2 Mpixels/sec 		5225
72.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2464
2.53 MB/sec 		5515
5.67 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3761
2.55 MTE/sec 		6609
4.47 MTE/sec
SQLite 2764
76.6 Krows/sec 		4873
135.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2729
12.4 MB/sec 		4330
19.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4382
3.97 MElements/sec 		6452
5.85 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2973
92.9 Mpixels/sec 		5051
157.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3420
90.9 Mpixels/sec 		5583
148.3 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5681
390.6 functions/sec 		9177
631.0 functions/sec
Camera 3762
10.4 images/sec 		5979
16.6 images/sec
SGEMM 1921
40.6 Gflops 		5873
124.2 Gflops
SFFT 3652
9.10 Gflops 		6244
15.6 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3064
2.29 Mpairs/sec 		3341
2.50 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2890
422.1 Kpixels/sec 		4981
727.4 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4109
12030.1 FPS 		6248
18290.3 FPS
HDR 3395
12.3 Mpixels/sec 		4722
17.1 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3426
60.0 Mpixels/sec 		4120
72.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3890
33.3 Words/sec 		3581
30.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 3302
964.7 Ksubwindows/sec 		3783
1.11 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3695
10.2 GB/sec 		5880
16.3 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5062
85.5 ns 		6631
65.3 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2751
14.7 GB/sec 		5037
26.9 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Multi-Core Score 11470 19132
AES 9935
7.48 GB/sec 		17453
13.1 GB/sec
LZMA 14993
23.4 MB/sec 		23095
36.1 MB/sec
JPEG 17639
141.9 Mpixels/sec 		27591
222.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 14140
196.1 Mpixels/sec 		22467
311.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 11256
11.6 MB/sec 		21528
22.1 MB/sec
Dijkstra 14343
9.71 MTE/sec 		22380
15.1 MTE/sec
SQLite 9405
260.7 Krows/sec 		11762
326.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 11579
52.6 MB/sec 		20108
91.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 11995
10.9 MElements/sec 		24990
22.6 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 12565
392.6 Mpixels/sec 		21630
675.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 12784
339.6 Mpixels/sec 		21520
571.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 24605
1.69 Kfunctions/sec 		39918
2.74 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 16507
45.8 images/sec 		27331
75.8 images/sec
SGEMM 6661
140.8 Gflops 		10956
231.6 Gflops
SFFT 14144
35.3 Gflops 		24724
61.6 Gflops
N-Body Physics 12889
9.63 Mpairs/sec 		22013
16.4 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 12744
1.86 Mpixels/sec 		23397
3.42 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 19593
57356.3 FPS 		32992
96580.0 FPS
HDR 14845
53.8 Mpixels/sec 		27781
100.7 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 13165
230.6 Mpixels/sec 		24937
436.9 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 10895
93.2 Words/sec 		17099
146.3 Words/sec
Face Detection 14395
4.20 Msubwindows/sec 		24659
7.20 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4715
13.1 GB/sec 		6981
19.3 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5293
81.8 ns 		6865
63.1 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3428
18.3 GB/sec 		5458
29.1 GB/sec

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