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

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 4752 5000
Multi-Core Score 14392 14722
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System Information

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 10.14.4 (Build 18E226) macOS 10.12.6 (Build 16G29)
Model Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Processor Intel Core i3-8100B @ 3.60 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores 		Intel Core i5-7500 @ 3.40 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10 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 6144 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C Macmini8,1 Apple Inc. Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 iMac18,3
BIOS Apple Inc. 220.250.366.0.0 (iBridge: 16.16.4507.0.0,0) Apple Inc. IM183.88Z.0145.B09.1706181606
Memory 8.00 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 24.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 4752 5000
AES 3091
2.33 GB/sec 		3229
2.43 GB/sec
LZMA 4128
6.45 MB/sec 		4361
6.81 MB/sec
JPEG 4637
37.3 Mpixels/sec 		4946
39.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4301
59.7 Mpixels/sec 		4490
62.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4608
4.74 MB/sec 		4856
4.99 MB/sec
Dijkstra 5305
3.59 MTE/sec 		5208
3.52 MTE/sec
SQLite 4067
112.8 Krows/sec 		4289
118.9 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4021
18.3 MB/sec 		4195
19.0 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5233
4.74 MElements/sec 		5620
5.09 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4225
132.0 Mpixels/sec 		4339
135.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5371
142.7 Mpixels/sec 		4930
131.0 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7613
523.5 functions/sec 		8089
556.2 functions/sec
Camera 4847
13.4 images/sec 		5173
14.3 images/sec
SGEMM 4870
102.9 Gflops 		5031
106.4 Gflops
SFFT 5218
13.0 Gflops 		5461
13.6 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4408
3.29 Mpairs/sec 		4654
3.48 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4108
599.9 Kpixels/sec 		4351
635.5 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 5138
15043.3 FPS 		5406
15827.3 FPS
HDR 5515
20.0 Mpixels/sec 		5908
21.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4914
86.1 Mpixels/sec 		5119
89.7 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5001
42.8 Words/sec 		5378
46.0 Words/sec
Face Detection 4502
1.32 Msubwindows/sec 		4766
1.39 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4439
12.3 GB/sec 		5047
14.0 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5946
72.8 ns 		6611
65.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4657
24.9 GB/sec 		4690
25.0 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 14392 14722
AES 13204
9.94 GB/sec 		14803
11.1 GB/sec
LZMA 14625
22.8 MB/sec 		14796
23.1 MB/sec
JPEG 18501
148.9 Mpixels/sec 		18240
146.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 15244
211.4 Mpixels/sec 		15822
219.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 17270
17.7 MB/sec 		17258
17.7 MB/sec
Dijkstra 14014
9.48 MTE/sec 		15594
10.6 MTE/sec
SQLite 15733
436.2 Krows/sec 		14643
405.9 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 14383
65.3 MB/sec 		15116
68.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 18937
17.2 MElements/sec 		19802
17.9 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 16642
520.0 Mpixels/sec 		15434
482.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 17033
452.5 Mpixels/sec 		15973
424.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 28589
1.97 Kfunctions/sec 		29182
2.01 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 19182
53.2 images/sec 		19343
53.6 images/sec
SGEMM 12339
260.8 Gflops 		13162
278.2 Gflops
SFFT 20778
51.8 Gflops 		20691
51.6 Gflops
N-Body Physics 17364
13.0 Mpairs/sec 		16942
12.7 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 14346
2.09 Mpixels/sec 		14719
2.15 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 20111
58872.9 FPS 		20030
58637.2 FPS
HDR 18638
67.6 Mpixels/sec 		19893
72.1 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 19398
339.8 Mpixels/sec 		18557
325.1 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 11884
101.7 Words/sec 		12953
110.8 Words/sec
Face Detection 17961
5.25 Msubwindows/sec 		18010
5.26 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4606
12.8 GB/sec 		5665
15.7 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5757
75.2 ns 		6457
67.0 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4682
25.0 GB/sec 		4804
25.7 GB/sec

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