iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)

Geekbench Scores

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Single-Core Score 4836 5765
Multi-Core Score 11576 18743
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System Information

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Operating System macOS 10.15.4 (Build 19E287) macOS 10.12.1 (Build 16B2555)
Model iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Processor Intel Core i5-7500 @ 3.40 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores 		Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.50 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9 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 6144 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 iMac18,3 Apple Inc. Mac-B809C3757DA9BB8D iMac17,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 181.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. IM171.88Z.0105.B08.1604111319
Memory 40.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 32.00 GB 2132 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Single-Core Score 4836 5765
AES 4164
3.14 GB/sec 		3807
2.87 GB/sec
LZMA 4119
6.43 MB/sec 		5209
8.14 MB/sec
JPEG 4844
39.0 Mpixels/sec 		5886
47.4 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4213
58.4 Mpixels/sec 		5480
76.0 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4635
4.76 MB/sec 		5386
5.54 MB/sec
Dijkstra 5507
3.73 MTE/sec 		6415
4.34 MTE/sec
SQLite 4115
114.1 Krows/sec 		5172
143.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4431
20.1 MB/sec 		5047
22.9 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5289
4.79 MElements/sec 		5386
4.88 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4389
137.2 Mpixels/sec 		5112
159.7 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5443
144.6 Mpixels/sec 		5844
155.3 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7778
534.8 functions/sec 		6560
451.1 functions/sec
Camera 4905
13.6 images/sec 		6041
16.8 images/sec
SGEMM 5119
108.2 Gflops 		6165
130.3 Gflops
SFFT 5247
13.1 Gflops 		6160
15.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4591
3.43 Mpairs/sec 		5551
4.15 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4271
623.8 Kpixels/sec 		5140
750.6 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 5370
15720.2 FPS 		6193
18129.6 FPS
HDR 5217
18.9 Mpixels/sec 		6783
24.6 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5170
90.6 Mpixels/sec 		5873
102.9 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5246
44.9 Words/sec 		6348
54.3 Words/sec
Face Detection 4574
1.34 Msubwindows/sec 		5482
1.60 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4511
12.5 GB/sec 		6362
17.6 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5652
76.6 ns 		6868
15.9 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 4030
21.5 GB/sec 		5834
31.2 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Multi-Core Score 11576 18743
AES 10992
8.28 GB/sec 		17857
13.4 GB/sec
LZMA 10348
16.2 MB/sec 		23355
36.5 MB/sec
JPEG 14627
117.7 Mpixels/sec 		28190
226.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 11942
165.6 Mpixels/sec 		23668
328.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 12785
13.1 MB/sec 		22607
23.2 MB/sec
Dijkstra 12402
8.39 MTE/sec 		24224
16.4 MTE/sec
SQLite 10971
304.2 Krows/sec 		7451
206.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 12063
54.8 MB/sec 		21007
95.4 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 13683
12.4 MElements/sec 		15594
14.1 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 11686
365.1 Mpixels/sec 		22214
694.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 13814
367.0 Mpixels/sec 		24784
658.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 19640
1.35 Kfunctions/sec 		13899
955.7 functions/sec
Camera 13414
37.2 images/sec 		28154
78.1 images/sec
SGEMM 12064
255.0 Gflops 		19737
417.2 Gflops
SFFT 15897
39.6 Gflops 		26649
66.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 13208
9.86 Mpairs/sec 		25235
18.8 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 11103
1.62 Mpixels/sec 		23976
3.50 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 14592
42717.6 FPS 		32509
95167.7 FPS
HDR 15982
57.9 Mpixels/sec 		28832
104.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 18790
329.2 Mpixels/sec 		24770
433.9 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 9960
85.2 Words/sec 		17716
151.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 13634
3.98 Msubwindows/sec 		25404
7.42 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5953
16.5 GB/sec 		7679
21.3 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5816
74.4 ns 		6846
15.8 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 4808
25.7 GB/sec 		6463
34.5 GB/sec

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