iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) vs Mac mini (Late 2018)

Geekbench Scores

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Single-Core Score 5944 6029
Multi-Core Score 19366 27591
Geekbench 4.3.3 Geekbench 4.4.2 Tryout

System Information

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Operating System macOS 10.14.4 (Build 18E226) macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G95)
Model iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Processor Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.20 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i7-8700B @ 3.20 GHz
1 Processor, 6 Cores, 12 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 6
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 6
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 6
L3 Cache 8192 KB 12288 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 iMac18,3 Apple Inc. Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C Macmini8,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 170.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. 220.270.99.0.0 (iBridge: 16.16.6571.0.0,0)
Memory 64.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 32.00 GB 2667 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Single-Core Score 5944 6029
AES 5033
3.79 GB/sec 		4943
3.72 GB/sec
LZMA 5161
8.06 MB/sec 		5253
8.20 MB/sec
JPEG 5810
46.8 Mpixels/sec 		5945
47.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 5373
74.5 Mpixels/sec 		5503
76.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5608
5.76 MB/sec 		5701
5.86 MB/sec
Dijkstra 7134
4.83 MTE/sec 		8081
5.47 MTE/sec
SQLite 5052
140.1 Krows/sec 		5157
143.0 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5049
22.9 MB/sec 		5750
26.1 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6562
5.95 MElements/sec 		6505
5.89 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 5382
168.2 Mpixels/sec 		5296
165.5 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 7049
187.3 Mpixels/sec 		6903
183.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 9499
653.1 functions/sec 		9754
670.7 functions/sec
Camera 6096
16.9 images/sec 		6097
16.9 images/sec
SGEMM 6093
128.8 Gflops 		6300
133.2 Gflops
SFFT 6378
15.9 Gflops 		6440
16.1 Gflops
N-Body Physics 5520
4.12 Mpairs/sec 		5669
4.23 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 5067
740.0 Kpixels/sec 		5205
760.1 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 6370
18649.6 FPS 		6511
19061.8 FPS
HDR 6744
24.4 Mpixels/sec 		6994
25.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6353
111.3 Mpixels/sec 		6427
112.6 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6409
54.8 Words/sec 		6705
57.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 5373
1.57 Msubwindows/sec 		5731
1.67 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5979
16.6 GB/sec 		5875
16.3 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6273
69.0 ns 		5884
73.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5349
28.6 GB/sec 		5171
27.6 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Multi-Core Score 19366 27591
AES 16229
12.2 GB/sec 		17113
12.9 GB/sec
LZMA 22047
34.4 MB/sec 		34149
53.3 MB/sec
JPEG 25242
203.1 Mpixels/sec 		41054
330.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 22595
313.3 Mpixels/sec 		29293
406.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 19824
20.4 MB/sec 		31575
32.4 MB/sec
Dijkstra 24505
16.6 MTE/sec 		26842
18.2 MTE/sec
SQLite 19397
537.7 Krows/sec 		30355
841.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 19104
86.7 MB/sec 		33610
152.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 24111
21.8 MElements/sec 		32594
29.5 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 21708
678.3 Mpixels/sec 		33414
1.04 Gpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 25819
685.9 Mpixels/sec 		35354
939.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 40573
2.79 Kfunctions/sec 		62317
4.28 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 25360
70.3 images/sec 		40956
113.6 images/sec
SGEMM 17946
379.3 Gflops 		21749
459.7 Gflops
SFFT 23276
58.0 Gflops 		36330
90.6 Gflops
N-Body Physics 22500
16.8 Mpairs/sec 		35996
26.9 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 20601
3.01 Mpixels/sec 		31622
4.62 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 29599
86647.8 FPS 		47098
137874.8 FPS
HDR 26476
96.0 Mpixels/sec 		38064
138.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 22408
392.5 Mpixels/sec 		33984
595.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 16042
137.3 Words/sec 		19587
167.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 23155
6.76 Msubwindows/sec 		37404
10.9 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 7006
19.4 GB/sec 		6796
18.8 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6203
69.8 ns 		5729
75.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5680
30.3 GB/sec 		5580
29.8 GB/sec

Compare

Remove Baseline Geekbench 6 now available