Mac mini (Late 2018) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 5864 5054
Multi-Core Score 24863 14568
Geekbench 4.3.1 Geekbench 4.1.3 Tryout

System Information

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 10.14.1 (Build 18B75) macOS 10.13 (Build 17A365)
Model Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Processor Intel Core i7-8700B @ 3.20 GHz
1 Processor, 6 Cores, 12 Threads 		Intel Core i5-7600 @ 3.50 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 6 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 6 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 6 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 12288 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C Macmini8,1 Apple Inc. Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 iMac18,3
BIOS Apple Inc. 220.220.102.0.0 (iBridge: 16.16.1065.0.0,0) Apple Inc. IM183.88Z.0151.B00.1708080034
Memory 16.00 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 8.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 5864 5054
AES 3654
2.75 GB/sec 		4475
3.37 GB/sec
LZMA 5284
8.25 MB/sec 		4392
6.86 MB/sec
JPEG 5786
46.6 Mpixels/sec 		5050
40.6 Mpixels/sec
Canny 5538
76.8 Mpixels/sec 		4646
64.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5714
5.87 MB/sec 		4889
5.02 MB/sec
Dijkstra 7349
4.97 MTE/sec 		5267
3.56 MTE/sec
SQLite 5069
140.5 Krows/sec 		4351
120.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5152
23.4 MB/sec 		4243
19.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6566
5.95 MElements/sec 		5773
5.23 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 5328
166.5 Mpixels/sec 		4503
140.7 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 7224
191.9 Mpixels/sec 		4733
125.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 9544
656.2 functions/sec 		8280
569.4 functions/sec
Camera 6256
17.3 images/sec 		5092
14.1 images/sec
SGEMM 6303
133.2 Gflops 		5166
109.2 Gflops
SFFT 6526
16.3 Gflops 		5690
14.2 Gflops
N-Body Physics 5626
4.20 Mpairs/sec 		4928
3.68 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 5247
766.2 Kpixels/sec 		4542
663.3 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 6494
19011.4 FPS 		5643
16520.8 FPS
HDR 6924
25.1 Mpixels/sec 		6083
22.1 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6199
108.6 Mpixels/sec 		5341
93.6 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6623
56.7 Words/sec 		5377
46.0 Words/sec
Face Detection 5652
1.65 Msubwindows/sec 		4998
1.46 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5346
14.8 GB/sec 		4302
11.9 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6024
71.9 ns 		6373
67.9 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4860
26.0 GB/sec 		4375
23.4 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 24863 14568
AES 13657
10.3 GB/sec 		11589
8.73 GB/sec
LZMA 32462
50.7 MB/sec 		14523
22.7 MB/sec
JPEG 37622
302.7 Mpixels/sec 		18792
151.2 Mpixels/sec
Canny 27976
387.9 Mpixels/sec 		15623
216.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 29614
30.4 MB/sec 		17335
17.8 MB/sec
Dijkstra 24029
16.3 MTE/sec 		14396
9.74 MTE/sec
SQLite 26794
742.8 Krows/sec 		15333
425.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 28210
128.1 MB/sec 		15573
70.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 30542
27.7 MElements/sec 		18880
17.1 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 31731
991.5 Mpixels/sec 		16361
511.2 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 29366
780.1 Mpixels/sec 		14765
392.3 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 55726
3.83 Kfunctions/sec 		30068
2.07 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 35277
97.8 images/sec 		19940
55.3 images/sec
SGEMM 20614
435.7 Gflops 		12389
261.9 Gflops
SFFT 32354
80.7 Gflops 		22199
55.3 Gflops
N-Body Physics 32158
24.0 Mpairs/sec 		18537
13.8 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 27990
4.09 Mpixels/sec 		15439
2.25 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 43124
126239.9 FPS 		21122
61832.9 FPS
HDR 33132
120.1 Mpixels/sec 		20145
73.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 30696
537.7 Mpixels/sec 		19607
343.5 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 18003
154.0 Words/sec 		11835
101.3 Words/sec
Face Detection 34545
10.1 Msubwindows/sec 		18846
5.50 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5902
16.4 GB/sec 		4573
12.7 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5921
73.1 ns 		6297
68.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4754
25.4 GB/sec 		4407
23.5 GB/sec

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