Mac mini (Late 2018) vs iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 472 4464
Multi-Core Score 7594 13165
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System Information

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 10.15.5 (Build 19F101) macOS 10.12.6 (Build 16G29)
Model Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Processor Intel Core i5-8500B @ 3.00 GHz
1 Processor, 6 Cores 		Intel Core i5-7400 @ 3.00 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 3 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 3 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 3 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 9216 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C Macmini8,1 Apple Inc. Mac-77F17D7DA9285301 iMac18,2
BIOS Apple Inc. 1037.120.87.0.0 (iBridge: 17.16.15300.0.0,0) Apple Inc. IM183.88Z.0145.B09.1706181606
Memory 32.00 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 8.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 472 4464
AES 266
205.6 MB/sec 		2792
2.10 GB/sec
LZMA 314
502.5 KB/sec 		3728
5.82 MB/sec
JPEG 378
3.04 Mpixels/sec 		4402
35.4 Mpixels/sec
Canny 363
5.04 Mpixels/sec 		4106
56.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 371
391.1 KB/sec 		4212
4.33 MB/sec
Dijkstra 508
344.0 KTE/sec 		4828
3.27 MTE/sec
SQLite 332
9.22 Krows/sec 		3923
108.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 356
1.62 MB/sec 		3860
17.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 416
377.3 KElements/sec 		5183
4.70 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 367
11.5 Mpixels/sec 		3994
124.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 447
11.9 Mpixels/sec 		4211
111.9 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 607
41.7 functions/sec 		7500
515.7 functions/sec
Camera 398
1.11 images/sec 		4633
12.8 images/sec
SGEMM 420
8.89 Gflops 		4622
97.7 Gflops
SFFT 445
1.11 Gflops 		4715
11.8 Gflops
N-Body Physics 375
280.7 Kpairs/sec 		4278
3.20 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 348
50.8 Kpixels/sec 		4006
585.0 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 431
1262.3 FPS 		4982
14586.7 FPS
HDR 448
1.63 Mpixels/sec 		5361
19.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 439
7.70 Mpixels/sec 		4746
83.1 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 400
3.42 Words/sec 		4926
42.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 388
113.5 Ksubwindows/sec 		4300
1.26 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 719
1.99 GB/sec 		4382
12.1 GB/sec
Memory Latency 1124
384.9 ns 		6406
67.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 602
3.22 GB/sec 		3493
18.7 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 7594 13165
AES 1610
1.21 GB/sec 		12585
9.48 GB/sec
LZMA 1557
2.43 MB/sec 		13554
21.2 MB/sec
JPEG 2459
19.8 Mpixels/sec 		16605
133.6 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3322
46.1 Mpixels/sec 		13898
192.7 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3643
3.74 MB/sec 		16323
16.8 MB/sec
Dijkstra 5625
3.81 MTE/sec 		12969
8.78 MTE/sec
SQLite 4635
128.5 Krows/sec 		13582
376.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5281
24.0 MB/sec 		13746
62.4 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6212
5.63 MElements/sec 		17886
16.2 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4880
152.5 Mpixels/sec 		14205
443.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 6510
173.0 Mpixels/sec 		13564
360.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 11189
769.3 functions/sec 		26906
1.85 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 9680
26.8 images/sec 		17251
47.8 images/sec
SGEMM 10069
212.8 Gflops 		10730
226.8 Gflops
SFFT 12753
31.8 Gflops 		19050
47.5 Gflops
N-Body Physics 11655
8.70 Mpairs/sec 		15995
11.9 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 9749
1.42 Mpixels/sec 		13370
1.95 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 16132
47225.3 FPS 		18490
54128.8 FPS
HDR 18984
68.8 Mpixels/sec 		17696
64.1 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 18707
327.7 Mpixels/sec 		17048
298.6 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 15350
131.3 Words/sec 		11429
97.8 Words/sec
Face Detection 17146
5.01 Msubwindows/sec 		16486
4.82 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 6440
17.8 GB/sec 		4631
12.8 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5261
82.3 ns 		6069
71.3 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5478
29.3 GB/sec 		3870
20.7 GB/sec

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