Mac mini (Late 2014) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2014) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Single-Core Score 3749 4911
Multi-Core Score 6397 15243
Geekbench 4.4.1 Pro Geekbench 4.0.4

System Information

Mac mini (Late 2014) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Operating System macOS 10.15.3 (Build 19D76) macOS 10.12.3 (Build 16D32)
Model Mac mini (Late 2014) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Processor Intel Core i7-4578U @ 3.00 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.00 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 69 Stepping 1 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 94 Stepping 3
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 4096 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-35C5E08120C7EEAF Macmini7,1 Apple Inc. Mac-B809C3757DA9BB8D iMac17,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 246.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. IM171.88Z.0105.B05.1511031741
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 1867 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2014) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Single-Core Score 3749 4911
AES 3370
2.54 GB/sec 		3340
2.52 GB/sec
LZMA 3784
5.91 MB/sec 		4377
6.84 MB/sec
JPEG 4228
34.0 Mpixels/sec 		5056
40.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3769
52.3 Mpixels/sec 		4783
66.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3909
4.02 MB/sec 		4813
4.95 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3952
2.67 MTE/sec 		5080
3.44 MTE/sec
SQLite 3602
99.9 Krows/sec 		4536
125.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3719
16.9 MB/sec 		4350
19.8 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4570
4.14 MElements/sec 		4830
4.38 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3749
117.1 Mpixels/sec 		4372
136.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4643
123.4 Mpixels/sec 		5088
135.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 6765
465.2 functions/sec 		5694
391.5 functions/sec
Camera 4311
12.0 images/sec 		5257
14.6 images/sec
SGEMM 3393
71.7 Gflops 		5363
113.4 Gflops
SFFT 3994
9.96 Gflops 		5451
13.6 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3557
2.66 Mpairs/sec 		4906
3.66 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3181
464.5 Kpixels/sec 		4534
662.2 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4302
12595.6 FPS 		5480
16043.9 FPS
HDR 3915
14.2 Mpixels/sec 		5715
20.7 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4012
70.3 Mpixels/sec 		4872
85.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3698
31.6 Words/sec 		5388
46.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 3895
1.14 Msubwindows/sec 		4776
1.40 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 2444
6.77 GB/sec 		4888
13.5 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4662
92.9 ns 		6320
14.6 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 2034
10.9 GB/sec 		4322
23.1 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2014) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Multi-Core Score 6397 15243
AES 6124
4.61 GB/sec 		11755
8.85 GB/sec
LZMA 7664
12.0 MB/sec 		19566
30.6 MB/sec
JPEG 9881
79.5 Mpixels/sec 		22661
182.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 6701
92.9 Mpixels/sec 		18668
258.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 6661
6.85 MB/sec 		17768
18.3 MB/sec
Dijkstra 8217
5.56 MTE/sec 		17328
11.7 MTE/sec
SQLite 6414
177.8 Krows/sec 		9331
258.7 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 6781
30.8 MB/sec 		17208
78.1 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 7694
6.97 MElements/sec 		12206
11.1 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 7742
241.9 Mpixels/sec 		18853
589.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 8494
225.7 Mpixels/sec 		18385
488.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 13919
957.0 functions/sec 		12550
862.9 functions/sec
Camera 9406
26.1 images/sec 		23822
66.1 images/sec
SGEMM 5368
113.5 Gflops 		14878
314.5 Gflops
SFFT 6058
15.1 Gflops 		22023
54.9 Gflops
N-Body Physics 7308
5.46 Mpairs/sec 		20607
15.4 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 6902
1.01 Mpixels/sec 		19524
2.85 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 6198
18144.8 FPS 		27638
80906.6 FPS
HDR 4640
16.8 Mpixels/sec 		23258
84.3 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 7872
137.9 Mpixels/sec 		21365
374.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5023
43.0 Words/sec 		12992
111.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 5739
1.68 Msubwindows/sec 		22525
6.58 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 2493
6.91 GB/sec 		5485
15.2 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4338
99.8 ns 		6251
14.4 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 2939
15.7 GB/sec 		4315
23.0 GB/sec

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