Mac mini (Late 2014) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2014) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 3394 4834
Multi-Core Score 6370 14079
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System Information

Mac mini (Late 2014) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 10.14.3 (Build 18D109) macOS 10.14.1 (Build 18B75)
Model Mac mini (Late 2014) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Processor Intel Core i5-4278U @ 2.60 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i5-7500 @ 3.40 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 69 Stepping 1 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 3072 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-35C5E08120C7EEAF Macmini7,1 Apple Inc. Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 iMac18,3
BIOS Apple Inc. 236.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. 166.0.0.0.0
Memory 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2014) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 3394 4834
AES 3015
2.27 GB/sec 		3172
2.39 GB/sec
LZMA 3437
5.37 MB/sec 		4245
6.63 MB/sec
JPEG 3754
30.2 Mpixels/sec 		4787
38.5 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3397
47.1 Mpixels/sec 		4479
62.1 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3317
3.41 MB/sec 		4661
4.79 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3647
2.47 MTE/sec 		5249
3.55 MTE/sec
SQLite 3075
85.3 Krows/sec 		4095
113.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3194
14.5 MB/sec 		4130
18.8 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4218
3.82 MElements/sec 		5177
4.69 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3412
106.6 Mpixels/sec 		4245
132.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3664
97.3 Mpixels/sec 		5471
145.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 6160
423.6 functions/sec 		7789
535.6 functions/sec
Camera 3498
9.70 images/sec 		4960
13.8 images/sec
SGEMM 2954
62.5 Gflops 		4982
105.3 Gflops
SFFT 3484
8.69 Gflops 		5368
13.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3173
2.37 Mpairs/sec 		4583
3.42 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2338
341.5 Kpixels/sec 		4236
618.7 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 2007
5875.3 FPS 		5272
15435.3 FPS
HDR 3466
12.6 Mpixels/sec 		5759
20.9 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3612
63.3 Mpixels/sec 		5095
89.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3303
28.3 Words/sec 		5073
43.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 3522
1.03 Msubwindows/sec 		4621
1.35 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3354
9.29 GB/sec 		4328
12.0 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5507
78.6 ns 		6418
67.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2138
11.4 GB/sec 		4415
23.6 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2014) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 6370 14079
AES 3429
2.58 GB/sec 		12781
9.62 GB/sec
LZMA 7749
12.1 MB/sec 		14234
22.2 MB/sec
JPEG 6351
51.1 Mpixels/sec 		18078
145.5 Mpixels/sec
Canny 8005
111.0 Mpixels/sec 		15081
209.1 Mpixels/sec
Lua 6846
7.04 MB/sec 		16469
16.9 MB/sec
Dijkstra 9488
6.42 MTE/sec 		13737
9.30 MTE/sec
SQLite 6254
173.4 Krows/sec 		13647
378.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 6652
30.2 MB/sec 		14143
64.2 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6509
5.90 MElements/sec 		18602
16.9 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 7593
237.3 Mpixels/sec 		16333
510.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 8268
219.7 Mpixels/sec 		17101
454.3 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 6869
472.3 functions/sec 		27298
1.88 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 9142
25.4 images/sec 		18900
52.4 images/sec
SGEMM 5385
113.8 Gflops 		12136
256.5 Gflops
SFFT 4383
10.9 Gflops 		20611
51.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 5786
4.32 Mpairs/sec 		17363
13.0 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 6547
956.1 Kpixels/sec 		14402
2.10 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 9553
27967.0 FPS 		19749
57814.6 FPS
HDR 8393
30.4 Mpixels/sec 		18717
67.9 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 7761
136.0 Mpixels/sec 		18963
332.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5868
50.2 Words/sec 		11634
99.5 Words/sec
Face Detection 8098
2.37 Msubwindows/sec 		17553
5.13 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4342
12.0 GB/sec 		4553
12.6 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5388
80.3 ns 		6255
69.2 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3418
18.3 GB/sec 		4446
23.7 GB/sec

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