iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2014)
Geekbench 3 Score 2748 3013
Geekbench 3 Multicore Score 7168 6372

System Information

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2014)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.7.5 (Build 11G63) Mac OS X 10.11.2 (Build 15C50)
Model iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2014)
Processor Intel Core i5-2500S @ 2.70 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores
Intel Core i5-4308U @ 2.80 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 69 Stepping 1
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 6144 KB 3072 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-942B59F58194171B iMac12,2 Apple Inc. Mac-35C5E08120C7EEAF Macmini7,1
BIOS Apple Inc. IM121.88Z.0047.B1F.1201241648 Apple Inc. MM71.88Z.0220.B06.1509081252
Memory 12.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Integer Performance

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2014)
Integer 2808 3107
Integer Multicore 8299 7225
AES 2856 4625
AES Multicore 7035 8901
Twofish 2741 3071
Twofish Multicore 8415 8210
SHA1 2729 3373
SHA1 Multicore 8231 6373
SHA2 2758 3850
SHA2 Multicore 8522 6333
BZip2 Compress 2791 2697
BZip2 Compress Multicore 8417 7143
BZip2 Decompress 2840 2818
BZip2 Decompress Multicore 8671 7560
JPEG Compress 2757 2816
JPEG Compress Multicore 8431 7311
JPEG Decompress 2827 2870
JPEG Decompress Multicore 8515 6514
PNG Compress 2779 2678
PNG Compress Multicore 8423 7599
PNG Decompress 2755 2818
PNG Decompress Multicore 8505 7439
Sobel 2861 2915
Sobel Multicore 8692 6526
Lua 2757 3711
Lua Multicore 8037 7604
Dijkstra 3071 2724
Dijkstra Multicore 8139 6878

Floating Point Performance

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2014)
Floating Point 2781 3067
Floating Point Multicore 8318 7258
BlackScholes 3030 3257
BlackScholes Multicore 9214 8378
Mandelbrot 2788 2931
Mandelbrot Multicore 8124 10169
Sharpen Filter 2769 3058
Sharpen Filter Multicore 8043 6387
Blur Filter 2791 2940
Blur Filter Multicore 8087 5874
SGEMM 2671 2554
SGEMM Multicore 8169 6227
DGEMM 2613 3020
DGEMM Multicore 8139 7491
SFFT 2814 3104
SFFT Multicore 8493 6866
DFFT 2843 3029
DFFT Multicore 8549 6729
N-Body 2737 3916
N-Body Multicore 7849 8475
Ray Trace 2775 3030
Ray Trace Multicore 8596 6956

Memory Performance

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2014)
Memory 2564 2718
Memory Multicore 2609 2898
Stream Copy 2579 2793
Stream Copy Multicore 2610 2946
Stream Scale 2521 2781
Stream Scale Multicore 2640 2950
Stream Add 2542 2613
Stream Add Multicore 2554 2810
Stream Triad 2619 2689
Stream Triad Multicore 2634 2889