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 5397 5638
Multi-Core Score 32425 19938
Geekbench 4.4.2 Geekbench 4.1.1

System Information

iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 10.15.3 (Build 19D76) macOS 10.12.6 (Build 16G29)
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, 16 Threads 		Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.20 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 12 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 8 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 8 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 8 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 16384 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-AA95B1DDAB278B95 1.0 Apple Inc. Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 iMac18,3
BIOS Apple Inc. 1037.60.50.0.0 Apple Inc. IM183.88Z.0145.B09.1706181606
Memory 32.00 GB 3000 MHz DDR4 40.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 5397 5638
AES 3447
2.60 GB/sec 		3659
2.76 GB/sec
LZMA 4260
6.65 MB/sec 		4938
7.71 MB/sec
JPEG 5439
43.8 Mpixels/sec 		5566
44.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4896
67.9 Mpixels/sec 		5154
71.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5149
5.29 MB/sec 		5511
5.66 MB/sec
Dijkstra 6117
4.14 MTE/sec 		5490
3.72 MTE/sec
SQLite 4500
124.8 Krows/sec 		4915
136.3 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5275
24.0 MB/sec 		4695
21.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5637
5.11 MElements/sec 		6343
5.75 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4640
145.0 Mpixels/sec 		4912
153.5 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5986
159.0 Mpixels/sec 		5723
152.1 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 8525
586.2 functions/sec 		9580
658.7 functions/sec
Camera 5554
15.4 images/sec 		5943
16.5 images/sec
SGEMM 5791
122.4 Gflops 		5804
122.7 Gflops
SFFT 6181
15.4 Gflops 		6338
15.8 Gflops
N-Body Physics 5091
3.80 Mpairs/sec 		5492
4.10 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4692
685.3 Kpixels/sec 		5007
731.2 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 5874
17195.5 FPS 		6349
18587.1 FPS
HDR 5558
20.1 Mpixels/sec 		6856
24.9 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5961
104.4 Mpixels/sec 		5887
103.1 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5564
47.6 Words/sec 		6252
53.5 Words/sec
Face Detection 5325
1.56 Msubwindows/sec 		5478
1.60 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5724
15.9 GB/sec 		5795
16.1 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6814
63.5 ns 		6183
70.0 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4601
24.6 GB/sec 		5296
28.3 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 32425 19938
AES 13373
10.1 GB/sec 		17402
13.1 GB/sec
LZMA 42097
65.8 MB/sec 		22752
35.5 MB/sec
JPEG 53964
434.2 Mpixels/sec 		27365
220.2 Mpixels/sec
Canny 32097
445.1 Mpixels/sec 		22092
306.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 41812
43.0 MB/sec 		21476
22.1 MB/sec
Dijkstra 26630
18.0 MTE/sec 		23841
16.1 MTE/sec
SQLite 38658
1.07 Mrows/sec 		18279
506.7 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 43569
197.8 MB/sec 		19860
90.2 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 36291
32.9 MElements/sec 		24655
22.3 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 43749
1.37 Gpixels/sec 		21197
662.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 33033
877.6 Mpixels/sec 		23301
619.0 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 75815
5.21 Kfunctions/sec 		43554
2.99 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 51401
142.5 images/sec 		27482
76.2 images/sec
SGEMM 20894
441.7 Gflops 		17144
362.4 Gflops
SFFT 51531
128.5 Gflops 		26035
64.9 Gflops
N-Body Physics 47449
35.4 Mpairs/sec 		23416
17.5 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 39592
5.78 Mpixels/sec 		23378
3.41 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 58453
171115.2 FPS 		32346
94689.9 FPS
HDR 40812
147.9 Mpixels/sec 		27081
98.2 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 47310
828.8 Mpixels/sec 		24638
431.6 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 19449
166.4 Words/sec 		15832
135.5 Words/sec
Face Detection 51404
15.0 Msubwindows/sec 		25023
7.31 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 6001
16.6 GB/sec 		6742
18.7 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6688
64.7 ns 		6169
70.2 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4840
25.8 GB/sec 		5669
30.3 GB/sec

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