MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Single-Core Score 5710 3667
Multi-Core Score 24679 9102
Geekbench 4.3.1 Pro Geekbench 4.1.1 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Operating System macOS 10.14.2 (Build 18C54) macOS 10.12.6 (Build 16G29)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Processor Intel Core i9-8950HK @ 2.90 GHz
1 Processor, 6 Cores, 12 Threads 		Intel Core i5-6600 @ 3.30 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores
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 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-937A206F2EE63C01 MacBookPro15,1 Apple Inc. Mac-B809C3757DA9BB8D iMac17,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 220.230.16.0.0 (iBridge: 16.16.2542.0.0,0) Apple Inc. IM171.88Z.0105.B26.1706181852
Memory 32.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 32.00 GB 1867 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Single-Core Score 5710 3667
AES 5137
3.87 GB/sec 		1966
1.48 GB/sec
LZMA 5235
8.18 MB/sec 		3577
5.59 MB/sec
JPEG 5896
47.4 Mpixels/sec 		4734
38.1 Mpixels/sec
Canny 5453
75.6 Mpixels/sec 		3027
42.0 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5766
5.93 MB/sec 		4670
4.80 MB/sec
Dijkstra 7176
4.86 MTE/sec 		2283
1.54 MTE/sec
SQLite 5031
139.5 Krows/sec 		4163
115.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5004
22.7 MB/sec 		3738
17.0 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6505
5.89 MElements/sec 		5203
4.71 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 5098
159.3 Mpixels/sec 		4055
126.7 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 6838
181.7 Mpixels/sec 		4029
107.0 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 9570
658.0 functions/sec 		7243
498.0 functions/sec
Camera 6097
16.9 images/sec 		5058
14.0 images/sec
SGEMM 6251
132.1 Gflops 		3857
81.5 Gflops
SFFT 6232
15.5 Gflops 		4541
11.3 Gflops
N-Body Physics 5527
4.13 Mpairs/sec 		4636
3.46 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 5192
758.2 Kpixels/sec 		4304
628.6 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 6403
18745.2 FPS 		5366
15710.6 FPS
HDR 6997
25.4 Mpixels/sec 		4794
17.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6166
108.0 Mpixels/sec 		4402
77.1 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6478
55.4 Words/sec 		3665
31.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 5582
1.63 Msubwindows/sec 		4744
1.39 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4705
13.0 GB/sec 		1910
5.29 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4334
99.9 ns 		1889
229.1 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4747
25.3 GB/sec 		1667
8.90 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Multi-Core Score 24679 9102
AES 17111
12.9 GB/sec 		4037
3.04 GB/sec
LZMA 29672
46.3 MB/sec 		8431
13.2 MB/sec
JPEG 35900
288.9 Mpixels/sec 		14355
115.5 Mpixels/sec
Canny 28405
393.9 Mpixels/sec 		8024
111.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 29670
30.5 MB/sec 		13001
13.4 MB/sec
Dijkstra 23947
16.2 MTE/sec 		6224
4.21 MTE/sec
SQLite 27252
755.5 Krows/sec 		11382
315.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 27362
124.2 MB/sec 		14198
64.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 29332
26.6 MElements/sec 		13500
12.2 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 31654
989.0 Mpixels/sec 		11313
353.5 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 33641
893.7 Mpixels/sec 		10031
266.5 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 56339
3.87 Kfunctions/sec 		18635
1.28 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 34404
95.4 images/sec 		15008
41.6 images/sec
SGEMM 20732
438.2 Gflops 		5487
116.0 Gflops
SFFT 32017
79.8 Gflops 		13090
32.6 Gflops
N-Body Physics 31035
23.2 Mpairs/sec 		14110
10.5 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 26678
3.90 Mpixels/sec 		11929
1.74 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 42420
124179.3 FPS 		15809
46281.1 FPS
HDR 33777
122.4 Mpixels/sec 		13985
50.7 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 29038
508.7 Mpixels/sec 		12444
218.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 17267
147.7 Words/sec 		5811
49.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 36172
10.6 Msubwindows/sec 		13325
3.89 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5676
15.7 GB/sec 		2321
6.43 GB/sec
Memory Latency 3677
117.7 ns 		1733
249.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5050
27.0 GB/sec 		1792
9.57 GB/sec

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