Mac mini (Late 2012) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 3451 5326
Multi-Core Score 11720 15811
Geekbench 4.4.2 Tryout Geekbench 4.1.1 Tryout

System Information

Mac mini (Late 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 10.15.4 (Build 19E266) macOS 10.12.5 (Build 16F2073)
Model Mac mini (Late 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Processor Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 2.30 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i5-7600K @ 3.80 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 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 6144 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F65AE981FFA204ED Macmini6,2 Apple Inc. Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 iMac18,3
BIOS Apple Inc. 283.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. IM183.88Z.0145.B02.1703311945
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 64.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 3451 5326
AES 2783
2.10 GB/sec 		3435
2.59 GB/sec
LZMA 3590
5.61 MB/sec 		4678
7.31 MB/sec
JPEG 3694
29.7 Mpixels/sec 		5339
43.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3299
45.8 Mpixels/sec 		4902
68.0 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2359
2.43 MB/sec 		5179
5.32 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3963
2.68 MTE/sec 		5541
3.75 MTE/sec
SQLite 2620
72.6 Krows/sec 		4650
128.9 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2884
13.1 MB/sec 		4537
20.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4304
3.90 MElements/sec 		6105
5.53 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3078
96.2 Mpixels/sec 		4995
156.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4118
109.4 Mpixels/sec 		5329
141.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5451
374.8 functions/sec 		8744
601.2 functions/sec
Camera 3762
10.4 images/sec 		5589
15.5 images/sec
SGEMM 1920
40.6 Gflops 		5451
115.2 Gflops
SFFT 3654
9.11 Gflops 		5685
14.2 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2959
2.21 Mpairs/sec 		5053
3.77 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2855
417.0 Kpixels/sec 		4695
685.6 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4098
11997.4 FPS 		5883
17222.5 FPS
HDR 3441
12.5 Mpixels/sec 		6498
23.6 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3491
61.2 Mpixels/sec 		5823
102.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3939
33.7 Words/sec 		5673
48.5 Words/sec
Face Detection 3304
965.1 Ksubwindows/sec 		5196
1.52 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3779
10.5 GB/sec 		5417
15.0 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5222
82.9 ns 		5660
76.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2852
15.2 GB/sec 		5069
27.1 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 11720 15811
AES 10844
8.17 GB/sec 		16425
12.4 GB/sec
LZMA 15037
23.5 MB/sec 		15615
24.4 MB/sec
JPEG 17771
143.0 Mpixels/sec 		20656
166.2 Mpixels/sec
Canny 14313
198.5 Mpixels/sec 		17549
243.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 11229
11.5 MB/sec 		18005
18.5 MB/sec
Dijkstra 14328
9.70 MTE/sec 		16832
11.4 MTE/sec
SQLite 11375
315.4 Krows/sec 		16167
448.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 12090
54.9 MB/sec 		16648
75.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 11927
10.8 MElements/sec 		20339
18.4 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 13156
411.1 Mpixels/sec 		17048
532.7 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 14484
384.8 Mpixels/sec 		17507
465.1 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 23756
1.63 Kfunctions/sec 		30303
2.08 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 16577
46.0 images/sec 		21203
58.8 images/sec
SGEMM 6701
141.7 Gflops 		13856
292.9 Gflops
SFFT 13935
34.7 Gflops 		22201
55.3 Gflops
N-Body Physics 13156
9.83 Mpairs/sec 		18948
14.2 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 12838
1.87 Mpixels/sec 		16279
2.38 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 19604
57389.2 FPS 		21891
64084.1 FPS
HDR 14957
54.2 Mpixels/sec 		21987
79.7 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 13371
234.2 Mpixels/sec 		18886
330.9 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 10107
86.5 Words/sec 		12574
107.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 14335
4.19 Msubwindows/sec 		19521
5.70 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4829
13.4 GB/sec 		6011
16.7 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5387
80.4 ns 		5572
77.7 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3465
18.5 GB/sec 		5625
30.0 GB/sec

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