Mac mini (Late 2018) vs iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 5310 4399
Multi-Core Score 24258 13004
Geekbench 4.4.1 Tryout Geekbench 4.1.1 Tryout

System Information

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 10.15 (Build 19A512f) macOS 10.13 (Build 17A315i)
Model Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Processor Intel Core i7-8700B @ 3.20 GHz
1 Processor, 6 Cores, 12 Threads 		Intel Core i5-7400 @ 3.00 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 6 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 6 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 6 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 12288 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C Macmini8,1 Apple Inc. Mac-77F17D7DA9285301 iMac18,2
BIOS Apple Inc. 1037.0.22.0.0 (iBridge: 17.16.10507.5.6,0) Apple Inc. IM183.88Z.0147.B01.1706251744
Memory 32.00 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 8.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 5310 4399
AES 3415
2.57 GB/sec 		2838
2.14 GB/sec
LZMA 4359
6.81 MB/sec 		3969
6.20 MB/sec
JPEG 5069
40.8 Mpixels/sec 		4399
35.4 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4971
68.9 Mpixels/sec 		4068
56.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5164
5.31 MB/sec 		4375
4.50 MB/sec
Dijkstra 6902
4.67 MTE/sec 		4760
3.22 MTE/sec
SQLite 4712
130.7 Krows/sec 		3711
102.9 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5428
24.6 MB/sec 		3686
16.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5971
5.41 MElements/sec 		4901
4.44 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4944
154.5 Mpixels/sec 		3971
124.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 6189
164.4 Mpixels/sec 		4042
107.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 9069
623.6 functions/sec 		7089
487.4 functions/sec
Camera 5782
16.0 images/sec 		4603
12.8 images/sec
SGEMM 5717
120.9 Gflops 		4132
87.3 Gflops
SFFT 6064
15.1 Gflops 		4755
11.9 Gflops
N-Body Physics 5272
3.94 Mpairs/sec 		4214
3.15 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4269
623.4 Kpixels/sec 		3772
550.9 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 5512
16137.7 FPS 		4743
13887.3 FPS
HDR 5693
20.6 Mpixels/sec 		5209
18.9 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5535
97.0 Mpixels/sec 		4464
78.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5161
44.2 Words/sec 		4595
39.3 Words/sec
Face Detection 5085
1.49 Msubwindows/sec 		4018
1.17 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4909
13.6 GB/sec 		4284
11.9 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6247
69.3 ns 		6117
70.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4252
22.7 GB/sec 		4159
22.2 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 24258 13004
AES 16063
12.1 GB/sec 		12850
9.68 GB/sec
LZMA 29110
45.5 MB/sec 		12778
20.0 MB/sec
JPEG 32090
258.2 Mpixels/sec 		16351
131.6 Mpixels/sec
Canny 26688
370.1 Mpixels/sec 		13879
192.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 26098
26.8 MB/sec 		15496
15.9 MB/sec
Dijkstra 25793
17.5 MTE/sec 		12920
8.74 MTE/sec
SQLite 24424
677.1 Krows/sec 		13210
366.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 27927
126.8 MB/sec 		13353
60.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 28779
26.1 MElements/sec 		17204
15.6 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 29830
932.1 Mpixels/sec 		13946
435.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 29518
784.2 Mpixels/sec 		13196
350.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 51757
3.56 Kfunctions/sec 		26425
1.82 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 34675
96.1 images/sec 		17284
47.9 images/sec
SGEMM 20647
436.4 Gflops 		11526
243.7 Gflops
SFFT 32085
80.0 Gflops 		18876
47.1 Gflops
N-Body Physics 30575
22.8 Mpairs/sec 		15842
11.8 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 26532
3.87 Mpixels/sec 		13267
1.94 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 41125
120387.9 FPS 		18266
53471.6 FPS
HDR 34508
125.1 Mpixels/sec 		17725
64.3 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 30497
534.3 Mpixels/sec 		16909
296.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 19218
164.4 Words/sec 		10700
91.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 34767
10.2 Msubwindows/sec 		16343
4.77 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 6767
18.7 GB/sec 		4446
12.3 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5881
73.6 ns 		6004
72.1 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5588
29.8 GB/sec 		4297
22.9 GB/sec

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