iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011) vs Mac mini (Late 2018)

Geekbench Scores

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Single-Core Score 2874 5790
Multi-Core Score 7630 24475
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System Information

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Operating System macOS 10.12.6 (Build 16G1618) macOS 10.14.1 (Build 18B75)
Model iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Processor Intel Core i5-2400S @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores 		Intel Core i7-8700B @ 3.20 GHz
1 Processor, 6 Cores, 12 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 6
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 6
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 6
L3 Cache 6144 KB 12288 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-942B5BF58194151B Apple Inc. Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C Macmini8,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 82.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. 220.220.102.0.0 (iBridge: 16.16.1065.0.0,0)
Memory 14.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 2667 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Single-Core Score 2874 5790
AES 2318
1.75 GB/sec 		3794
2.86 GB/sec
LZMA 3079
4.81 MB/sec 		5239
8.18 MB/sec
JPEG 3260
26.2 Mpixels/sec 		5702
45.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 2951
40.9 Mpixels/sec 		5432
75.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2226
2.29 MB/sec 		5637
5.79 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3250
2.20 MTE/sec 		7120
4.82 MTE/sec
SQLite 2396
66.4 Krows/sec 		4949
137.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 1927
8.75 MB/sec 		4860
22.1 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3229
2.93 MElements/sec 		6524
5.91 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2361
73.8 Mpixels/sec 		5146
160.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 2937
78.0 Mpixels/sec 		7145
189.8 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 3960
272.3 functions/sec 		9447
649.6 functions/sec
Camera 2751
7.63 images/sec 		6135
17.0 images/sec
SGEMM 1427
30.2 Gflops 		6113
129.2 Gflops
SFFT 2857
7.12 Gflops 		6437
16.0 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2390
1.79 Mpairs/sec 		5465
4.08 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2209
322.7 Kpixels/sec 		4956
723.7 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3498
10240.6 FPS 		6429
18822.4 FPS
HDR 2798
10.1 Mpixels/sec 		6809
24.7 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3088
54.1 Mpixels/sec 		6063
106.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3564
30.5 Words/sec 		6541
56.0 Words/sec
Face Detection 2993
874.4 Ksubwindows/sec 		5452
1.59 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 2746
7.61 GB/sec 		5461
15.1 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6100
71.0 ns 		6018
71.9 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2485
13.3 GB/sec 		5063
27.0 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Multi-Core Score 7630 24475
AES 6839
5.15 GB/sec 		14710
11.1 GB/sec
LZMA 9700
15.2 MB/sec 		31526
49.2 MB/sec
JPEG 10957
88.2 Mpixels/sec 		36064
290.2 Mpixels/sec
Canny 9032
125.3 Mpixels/sec 		28246
391.7 Mpixels/sec
Lua 6910
7.10 MB/sec 		28099
28.9 MB/sec
Dijkstra 9481
6.42 MTE/sec 		24331
16.5 MTE/sec
SQLite 6993
193.9 Krows/sec 		26210
726.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 7389
33.5 MB/sec 		26864
122.0 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 11542
10.5 MElements/sec 		29973
27.2 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 8767
274.0 Mpixels/sec 		30795
962.2 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 7793
207.0 Mpixels/sec 		28838
766.1 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 15420
1.06 Kfunctions/sec 		54946
3.78 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 10325
28.6 images/sec 		32905
91.2 images/sec
SGEMM 4927
104.2 Gflops 		20454
432.4 Gflops
SFFT 9048
22.6 Gflops 		33475
83.5 Gflops
N-Body Physics 6911
5.16 Mpairs/sec 		31488
23.5 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 7580
1.11 Mpixels/sec 		27527
4.02 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 11631
34050.9 FPS 		42117
123293.6 FPS
HDR 8166
29.6 Mpixels/sec 		32013
116.1 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 10226
179.2 Mpixels/sec 		30505
534.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6703
57.4 Words/sec 		18525
158.5 Words/sec
Face Detection 8611
2.52 Msubwindows/sec 		32754
9.57 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3103
8.60 GB/sec 		6143
17.0 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5640
76.8 ns 		5910
73.3 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2652
14.2 GB/sec 		5055
27.0 GB/sec

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