iMac (27-inch Late 2012) vs Mac mini (Late 2018)

Geekbench Scores

iMac (27-inch Late 2012) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Single-Core Score 3910 5059
Multi-Core Score 12155 20312
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System Information

iMac (27-inch Late 2012) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Operating System macOS 10.12.1 (Build 16B2555) macOS 10.16 (Build 21A5506j)
Model iMac (27-inch Late 2012) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Processor Intel Core i7-3770 @ 3.40 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i5-8500B @ 3.00 GHz
1 Processor, 6 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 3
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 3
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 3
L3 Cache 8192 KB 9216 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-FC02E91DDD3FA6A4 iMac13,2 Apple Inc. Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C Macmini8,1
BIOS Apple Inc. IM131.88Z.010A.B09.1509111558 Apple Inc. 1715.40.7.0.0 (iBridge: 19.16.10506.5.1,0)
Memory 32.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 2667 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Late 2012) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Single-Core Score 3910 5059
AES 3285
2.47 GB/sec 		4348
3.28 GB/sec
LZMA 4058
6.34 MB/sec 		4489
7.01 MB/sec
JPEG 4418
35.6 Mpixels/sec 		4624
37.2 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3813
52.9 Mpixels/sec 		4234
58.7 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2914
3.00 MB/sec 		4893
5.03 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4234
2.87 MTE/sec 		5590
3.78 MTE/sec
SQLite 3239
89.8 Krows/sec 		4456
123.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3128
14.2 MB/sec 		4198
19.1 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4239
3.84 MElements/sec 		6309
5.72 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3436
107.4 Mpixels/sec 		4514
141.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4154
110.4 Mpixels/sec 		6198
164.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 4576
314.7 functions/sec 		8579
589.9 functions/sec
Camera 4455
12.4 images/sec 		5044
14.0 images/sec
SGEMM 2263
47.8 Gflops 		5234
110.6 Gflops
SFFT 4326
10.8 Gflops 		5154
12.8 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3627
2.71 Mpairs/sec 		4803
3.59 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3378
493.3 Kpixels/sec 		4563
666.3 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4745
13890.7 FPS 		5572
16312.4 FPS
HDR 3982
14.4 Mpixels/sec 		5422
19.7 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3932
68.9 Mpixels/sec 		5413
94.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4824
41.3 Words/sec 		5429
46.5 Words/sec
Face Detection 3811
1.11 Msubwindows/sec 		4985
1.46 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4044
11.2 GB/sec 		4357
12.1 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6422
14.8 Moperations/sec 		5949
72.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3237
17.3 GB/sec 		4511
24.1 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Late 2012) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Multi-Core Score 12155 20312
AES 9098
6.85 GB/sec 		11431
8.61 GB/sec
LZMA 17605
27.5 MB/sec 		22113
34.5 MB/sec
JPEG 20281
163.2 Mpixels/sec 		27324
219.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 15870
220.1 Mpixels/sec 		20435
283.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 13439
13.8 MB/sec 		27812
28.6 MB/sec
Dijkstra 16684
11.3 MTE/sec 		16163
10.9 MTE/sec
SQLite 6580
182.4 Krows/sec 		24959
691.9 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 13144
59.7 MB/sec 		22179
100.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 11783
10.7 MElements/sec 		33874
30.7 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 14437
451.1 Mpixels/sec 		26272
820.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 14452
383.9 Mpixels/sec 		22969
610.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 12283
844.5 functions/sec 		46851
3.22 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 19624
54.4 images/sec 		28018
77.7 images/sec
SGEMM 6637
140.3 Gflops 		13955
295.0 Gflops
SFFT 16150
40.3 Gflops 		32373
80.7 Gflops
N-Body Physics 14991
11.2 Mpairs/sec 		27652
20.7 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 14502
2.12 Mpixels/sec 		22089
3.23 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 21932
64202.7 FPS 		31205
91349.7 FPS
HDR 17402
63.1 Mpixels/sec 		23939
86.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 15041
263.5 Mpixels/sec 		30558
535.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 13023
111.4 Words/sec 		14652
125.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 16867
4.93 Msubwindows/sec 		28353
8.28 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4926
13.6 GB/sec 		4525
12.5 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6422
14.8 Moperations/sec 		5722
75.7 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3489
18.6 GB/sec 		4690
25.0 GB/sec

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