iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)

Geekbench Scores

iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 6529 6050
Multi-Core Score 32001 18878
Geekbench 4.4.1 Geekbench 4.3.0 Tryout

System Information

iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G87) macOS 10.14.1 (Build 18B75)
Model iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Processor Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60 GHz
1 Processor, 8 Cores 		Intel Core i5-7600K @ 3.80 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 13 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 16384 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-AA95B1DDAB278B95 iMac19,1 Apple Inc. Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 1.0
BIOS Apple Inc. 220.270.93.0.0 Apple Inc. 166.0.0.0.0
Memory 64.00 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 16.00 GB 0 MHz RAM

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 6529 6050
AES 5500
4.14 GB/sec 		3896
2.93 GB/sec
LZMA 5645
8.82 MB/sec 		5280
8.25 MB/sec
JPEG 6457
52.0 Mpixels/sec 		5959
48.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 5890
81.7 Mpixels/sec 		5633
78.1 Mpixels/sec
Lua 6316
6.49 MB/sec 		5851
6.01 MB/sec
Dijkstra 9120
6.17 MTE/sec 		6845
4.63 MTE/sec
SQLite 5551
153.9 Krows/sec 		5101
141.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 6327
28.7 MB/sec 		5194
23.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6907
6.26 MElements/sec 		6607
5.99 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 5942
185.7 Mpixels/sec 		5453
170.4 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 7439
197.7 Mpixels/sec 		7315
194.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 10449
718.4 functions/sec 		9655
663.9 functions/sec
Camera 6735
18.7 images/sec 		6311
17.5 images/sec
SGEMM 6685
141.3 Gflops 		6263
132.4 Gflops
SFFT 7033
17.5 Gflops 		5789
14.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 6137
4.58 Mpairs/sec 		5722
4.27 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 5636
823.1 Kpixels/sec 		5293
772.9 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 7096
20774.8 FPS 		6568
19228.2 FPS
HDR 7658
27.8 Mpixels/sec 		7200
26.1 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6916
121.2 Mpixels/sec 		6384
111.9 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 7097
60.7 Words/sec 		6457
55.3 Words/sec
Face Detection 6234
1.82 Msubwindows/sec 		5737
1.68 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 6127
17.0 GB/sec 		5808
16.1 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6514
66.5 ns 		7833
55.3 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5376
28.7 GB/sec 		5246
28.0 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 32001 18878
AES 18554
14.0 GB/sec 		16616
12.5 GB/sec
LZMA 37730
58.9 MB/sec 		19367
30.2 MB/sec
JPEG 45510
366.2 Mpixels/sec 		23775
191.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 32951
456.9 Mpixels/sec 		20503
284.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 39231
40.3 MB/sec 		22356
23.0 MB/sec
Dijkstra 27094
18.3 MTE/sec 		18841
12.7 MTE/sec
SQLite 36644
1.02 Mrows/sec 		19574
542.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 42121
191.2 MB/sec 		19234
87.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 46470
42.1 MElements/sec 		24056
21.8 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 41150
1.29 Gpixels/sec 		22355
698.5 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 39598
1.05 Gpixels/sec 		22912
608.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 67602
4.65 Kfunctions/sec 		36473
2.51 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 45026
124.8 images/sec 		24852
68.9 images/sec
SGEMM 22366
472.8 Gflops 		17450
368.8 Gflops
SFFT 46315
115.5 Gflops 		26306
65.6 Gflops
N-Body Physics 41921
31.3 Mpairs/sec 		22912
17.1 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 32090
4.69 Mpixels/sec 		18494
2.70 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 49425
144685.1 FPS 		26805
78470.3 FPS
HDR 43365
157.2 Mpixels/sec 		25612
92.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 44248
775.2 Mpixels/sec 		25079
439.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 26658
228.1 Words/sec 		15638
133.8 Words/sec
Face Detection 46635
13.6 Msubwindows/sec 		23978
7.00 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 7524
20.8 GB/sec 		6828
18.9 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6316
68.5 ns 		7756
55.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5950
31.8 GB/sec 		5177
27.6 GB/sec

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