Mac mini (Late 2018) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Single-Core Score 5830 5224
Multi-Core Score 25749 17893
Geekbench 4.3.1 Pro Geekbench 4.1.0 Tryout

System Information

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Operating System macOS 10.14.1 (Build 18B75) macOS 10.12.4 (Build 16E195)
Model Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Processor Intel Core i7-8700B @ 3.20 GHz
1 Processor, 6 Cores, 12 Threads 		Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.00 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 94 Stepping 3
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 6 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 6 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 6 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 12288 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C Macmini8,1 Apple Inc. Mac-B809C3757DA9BB8D iMac17,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 220.220.102.0.0 (iBridge: 16.16.1065.0.0,0) Apple Inc. IM171.88Z.0105.B20.1702221516
Memory 32.00 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 16.00 GB 1867 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Single-Core Score 5830 5224
AES 3599
2.71 GB/sec 		3429
2.58 GB/sec
LZMA 4950
7.73 MB/sec 		4707
7.35 MB/sec
JPEG 5567
44.8 Mpixels/sec 		5148
41.4 Mpixels/sec
Canny 5201
72.1 Mpixels/sec 		4991
69.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5390
5.54 MB/sec 		5050
5.19 MB/sec
Dijkstra 6677
4.52 MTE/sec 		5520
3.74 MTE/sec
SQLite 4739
131.4 Krows/sec 		4513
125.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4964
22.5 MB/sec 		4455
20.2 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6480
5.87 MElements/sec 		6032
5.47 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 5310
165.9 Mpixels/sec 		4535
141.7 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 6936
184.3 Mpixels/sec 		5237
139.1 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 9673
665.1 functions/sec 		8648
594.6 functions/sec
Camera 6246
17.3 images/sec 		5452
15.1 images/sec
SGEMM 6136
129.7 Gflops 		5575
117.9 Gflops
SFFT 6257
15.6 Gflops 		5776
14.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 5655
4.22 Mpairs/sec 		5005
3.74 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 5067
740.0 Kpixels/sec 		4640
677.6 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 6549
19172.7 FPS 		5775
16907.5 FPS
HDR 7060
25.6 Mpixels/sec 		5934
21.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6154
107.8 Mpixels/sec 		5351
93.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6686
57.2 Words/sec 		5889
50.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 5656
1.65 Msubwindows/sec 		4993
1.46 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 6085
16.9 GB/sec 		5251
14.5 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5874
73.7 ns 		6274
69.0 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5555
29.7 GB/sec 		4474
23.9 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Multi-Core Score 25749 17893
AES 18232
13.7 GB/sec 		13425
10.1 GB/sec
LZMA 31976
49.9 MB/sec 		21273
33.2 MB/sec
JPEG 35811
288.1 Mpixels/sec 		24947
200.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 29967
415.6 Mpixels/sec 		20190
280.0 Mpixels/sec
Lua 28375
29.2 MB/sec 		19643
20.2 MB/sec
Dijkstra 28729
19.4 MTE/sec 		19001
12.9 MTE/sec
SQLite 26063
722.5 Krows/sec 		16244
450.3 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 26492
120.3 MB/sec 		18372
83.4 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 31399
28.4 MElements/sec 		22757
20.6 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 31216
975.4 Mpixels/sec 		19483
608.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 34467
915.7 Mpixels/sec 		20452
543.3 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 54077
3.72 Kfunctions/sec 		40664
2.80 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 34769
96.4 images/sec 		24431
67.7 images/sec
SGEMM 22562
476.9 Gflops 		16106
340.4 Gflops
SFFT 33547
83.6 Gflops 		23880
59.5 Gflops
N-Body Physics 31398
23.4 Mpairs/sec 		21755
16.2 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 27987
4.09 Mpixels/sec 		20954
3.06 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 42980
125817.6 FPS 		29414
86107.9 FPS
HDR 35797
129.8 Mpixels/sec 		24634
89.3 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 29849
522.9 Mpixels/sec 		21321
373.5 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 20513
175.5 Words/sec 		14346
122.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 35477
10.4 Msubwindows/sec 		22991
6.72 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 7189
19.9 GB/sec 		5772
16.0 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5641
76.7 ns 		6195
69.9 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5882
31.4 GB/sec 		4473
23.9 GB/sec

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