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 5973 6731
Multi-Core Score 27575 23844
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System Information

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 10.14.4 (Build 18E224) macOS 10.12.6 (Build 16G29)
Model Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Processor Intel Core i7-8700B @ 3.20 GHz
1 Processor, 6 Cores, 12 Threads 		Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.20 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
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 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 6 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 6 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 12288 KB 8192 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.0147.B01.1706251744
Memory 32.00 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 32.00 GB 0 MHz RAM

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 5973 6731
AES 3841
2.89 GB/sec 		5663
4.27 GB/sec
LZMA 5253
8.20 MB/sec 		5770
9.01 MB/sec
JPEG 5972
48.1 Mpixels/sec 		6504
52.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 5410
75.0 Mpixels/sec 		6099
84.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5761
5.92 MB/sec 		6387
6.56 MB/sec
Dijkstra 7497
5.07 MTE/sec 		7134
4.83 MTE/sec
SQLite 5027
139.4 Krows/sec 		5681
157.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5115
23.2 MB/sec 		5556
25.2 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6508
5.90 MElements/sec 		7435
6.74 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 5273
164.8 Mpixels/sec 		5669
177.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 7266
193.1 Mpixels/sec 		6498
172.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 9711
667.7 functions/sec 		10738
738.3 functions/sec
Camera 6192
17.2 images/sec 		6751
18.7 images/sec
SGEMM 6268
132.5 Gflops 		6719
142.0 Gflops
SFFT 6336
15.8 Gflops 		7120
17.8 Gflops
N-Body Physics 5652
4.22 Mpairs/sec 		6141
4.59 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 5247
766.2 Kpixels/sec 		5728
836.5 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 6461
18913.8 FPS 		7090
20757.6 FPS
HDR 6930
25.1 Mpixels/sec 		7664
27.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6257
109.6 Mpixels/sec 		6655
116.6 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6636
56.8 Words/sec 		7289
62.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 5597
1.63 Msubwindows/sec 		6283
1.84 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 6156
17.1 GB/sec 		7498
20.8 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5888
73.5 ns 		8252
52.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5705
30.5 GB/sec 		6466
34.5 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 27575 23844
AES 18142
13.7 GB/sec 		23061
17.4 GB/sec
LZMA 33757
52.7 MB/sec 		27015
42.2 MB/sec
JPEG 39301
316.2 Mpixels/sec 		31133
250.5 Mpixels/sec
Canny 30579
424.0 Mpixels/sec 		26342
365.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 32075
33.0 MB/sec 		25491
26.2 MB/sec
Dijkstra 28272
19.1 MTE/sec 		27816
18.8 MTE/sec
SQLite 29592
820.4 Krows/sec 		20976
581.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 30265
137.4 MB/sec 		23683
107.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 32632
29.6 MElements/sec 		30378
27.5 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 32922
1.03 Gpixels/sec 		24263
758.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 36846
978.9 Mpixels/sec 		26951
716.0 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 61598
4.24 Kfunctions/sec 		50754
3.49 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 38634
107.1 images/sec 		31295
86.8 images/sec
SGEMM 22677
479.3 Gflops 		22772
481.3 Gflops
SFFT 35030
87.3 Gflops 		29882
74.5 Gflops
N-Body Physics 35991
26.9 Mpairs/sec 		28047
20.9 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 31680
4.63 Mpixels/sec 		27076
3.95 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 46744
136838.5 FPS 		37143
108732.5 FPS
HDR 37639
136.4 Mpixels/sec 		31692
114.9 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 34105
597.5 Mpixels/sec 		27983
490.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 20570
176.0 Words/sec 		21146
180.9 Words/sec
Face Detection 37011
10.8 Msubwindows/sec 		29097
8.50 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 7249
20.1 GB/sec 		9011
25.0 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5723
75.6 ns 		8217
52.7 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5963
31.8 GB/sec 		7436
39.7 GB/sec

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