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 4786 4987
Multi-Core Score 14409 14273
Geekbench 4.3.3 Tryout Geekbench 4.2.3 Tryout

System Information

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 10.14.5 (Build 18F132) macOS 10.13.4 (Build 17E202)
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 i5-7600 @ 3.50 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. 220.260.170.0.0 (iBridge: 16.16.5125.0.0,0) Apple Inc. IM183.88Z.0157.B00.1802080917
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 4786 4987
AES 3093
2.33 GB/sec 		3310
2.49 GB/sec
LZMA 4124
6.44 MB/sec 		4125
6.44 MB/sec
JPEG 4660
37.5 Mpixels/sec 		5001
40.2 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4317
59.9 Mpixels/sec 		4630
64.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4584
4.71 MB/sec 		4895
5.03 MB/sec
Dijkstra 5466
3.70 MTE/sec 		5207
3.52 MTE/sec
SQLite 4066
112.7 Krows/sec 		4250
117.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4156
18.9 MB/sec 		4108
18.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5229
4.74 MElements/sec 		5534
5.01 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4248
132.7 Mpixels/sec 		4487
140.2 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5470
145.3 Mpixels/sec 		4900
130.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7641
525.4 functions/sec 		7953
546.8 functions/sec
Camera 4877
13.5 images/sec 		5291
14.7 images/sec
SGEMM 4874
103.0 Gflops 		5129
108.4 Gflops
SFFT 5226
13.0 Gflops 		5533
13.8 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4445
3.32 Mpairs/sec 		4751
3.55 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4124
602.3 Kpixels/sec 		4408
643.8 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 5123
14999.7 FPS 		5455
15971.0 FPS
HDR 5536
20.1 Mpixels/sec 		6058
22.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4973
87.1 Mpixels/sec 		5266
92.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5038
43.1 Words/sec 		5129
43.9 Words/sec
Face Detection 4522
1.32 Msubwindows/sec 		4911
1.43 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4505
12.5 GB/sec 		5055
14.0 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6275
69.0 ns 		6027
71.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4474
23.9 GB/sec 		4675
25.0 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 14409 14273
AES 13440
10.1 GB/sec 		11754
8.85 GB/sec
LZMA 14622
22.8 MB/sec 		13548
21.2 MB/sec
JPEG 18569
149.4 Mpixels/sec 		18178
146.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 15299
212.2 Mpixels/sec 		16070
222.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 17120
17.6 MB/sec 		15642
16.1 MB/sec
Dijkstra 14485
9.80 MTE/sec 		15363
10.4 MTE/sec
SQLite 15386
426.6 Krows/sec 		14354
397.9 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 15454
70.2 MB/sec 		14638
66.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 19101
17.3 MElements/sec 		17101
15.5 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 16117
503.6 Mpixels/sec 		16096
502.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 16594
440.8 Mpixels/sec 		15890
422.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 28895
1.99 Kfunctions/sec 		27453
1.89 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 19254
53.4 images/sec 		19297
53.5 images/sec
SGEMM 13052
275.9 Gflops 		13689
289.4 Gflops
SFFT 18812
46.9 Gflops 		20637
51.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 17532
13.1 Mpairs/sec 		16833
12.6 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 14428
2.11 Mpixels/sec 		14496
2.12 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 20032
58642.6 FPS 		20085
58797.1 FPS
HDR 19014
68.9 Mpixels/sec 		20204
73.2 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 19632
343.9 Mpixels/sec 		18464
323.5 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 11419
97.7 Words/sec 		11954
102.3 Words/sec
Face Detection 17763
5.19 Msubwindows/sec 		17515
5.12 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4731
13.1 GB/sec 		6050
16.8 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5752
75.3 ns 		6072
71.3 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4615
24.6 GB/sec 		4949
26.4 GB/sec

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