Mac mini (Late 2014) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2014) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Single-Core Score 3935 5446
Multi-Core Score 7642 18859
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System Information

Mac mini (Late 2014) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Operating System macOS 10.13.6 (Build 17G65) macOS 10.12.6 (Build 16G29)
Model Mac mini (Late 2014) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Processor Intel Core i7-4578U @ 3.00 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.01 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 69 Stepping 1 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 94 Stepping 3
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 4096 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-35C5E08120C7EEAF Macmini7,1 Apple Inc. Mac-65CE76090165799A iMac17,1
BIOS Apple Inc. MM71.88Z.0220.B21.1704201444 Apple Inc. IM171.88Z.0110.B00.1708080012
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 64.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2014) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Single-Core Score 3935 5446
AES 3403
2.56 GB/sec 		3339
2.51 GB/sec
LZMA 3958
6.18 MB/sec 		4814
7.52 MB/sec
JPEG 4204
33.8 Mpixels/sec 		5420
43.6 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3810
52.8 Mpixels/sec 		4995
69.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3956
4.07 MB/sec 		5334
5.48 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4001
2.71 MTE/sec 		5888
3.98 MTE/sec
SQLite 3699
102.6 Krows/sec 		4715
130.7 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3527
16.0 MB/sec 		4640
21.1 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4473
4.05 MElements/sec 		6046
5.48 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3741
116.9 Mpixels/sec 		5021
156.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3887
103.3 Mpixels/sec 		5401
143.5 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7057
485.2 functions/sec 		8471
582.5 functions/sec
Camera 4309
11.9 images/sec 		5662
15.7 images/sec
SGEMM 3425
72.4 Gflops 		5489
116.0 Gflops
SFFT 4012
10.0 Gflops 		5787
14.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3589
2.68 Mpairs/sec 		5051
3.77 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3226
471.2 Kpixels/sec 		4631
676.3 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4319
12645.2 FPS 		5874
17197.9 FPS
HDR 3913
14.2 Mpixels/sec 		6236
22.6 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4014
70.3 Mpixels/sec 		5844
102.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4010
34.3 Words/sec 		5974
51.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 3955
1.16 Msubwindows/sec 		5106
1.49 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3189
8.84 GB/sec 		5896
16.3 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5188
83.4 ns 		6400
67.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3243
17.3 GB/sec 		5201
27.8 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2014) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Multi-Core Score 7642 18859
AES 6903
5.20 GB/sec 		17609
13.3 GB/sec
LZMA 8496
13.3 MB/sec 		21492
33.6 MB/sec
JPEG 10331
83.1 Mpixels/sec 		25636
206.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 8606
119.4 Mpixels/sec 		21174
293.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 7494
7.70 MB/sec 		19361
19.9 MB/sec
Dijkstra 9739
6.59 MTE/sec 		21770
14.7 MTE/sec
SQLite 7242
200.8 Krows/sec 		15528
430.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 7150
32.5 MB/sec 		18900
85.8 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 8835
8.01 MElements/sec 		24373
22.1 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 8282
258.8 Mpixels/sec 		19738
616.7 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 7984
212.1 Mpixels/sec 		21431
569.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 15559
1.07 Kfunctions/sec 		40832
2.81 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 10295
28.5 images/sec 		25580
70.9 images/sec
SGEMM 6235
131.8 Gflops 		17288
365.4 Gflops
SFFT 8457
21.1 Gflops 		23909
59.6 Gflops
N-Body Physics 7968
5.95 Mpairs/sec 		22563
16.9 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 7517
1.10 Mpixels/sec 		21485
3.14 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 11016
32248.1 FPS 		30106
88132.2 FPS
HDR 9203
33.4 Mpixels/sec 		25511
92.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 8623
151.1 Mpixels/sec 		22742
398.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6355
54.4 Words/sec 		16225
138.8 Words/sec
Face Detection 8973
2.62 Msubwindows/sec 		23195
6.77 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4212
11.7 GB/sec 		6915
19.2 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5088
85.1 ns 		6341
68.3 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3253
17.4 GB/sec 		5670
30.3 GB/sec

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