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 6126 5878
Multi-Core Score 32939 20635
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System Information

iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 10.15.5 (Build 19F101) 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 13 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 iMac19,1 Apple Inc. Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 iMac18,3
BIOS Apple Inc. 1037.120.79.0.0 Apple Inc. IM183.88Z.0150.B00.1707271505
Memory 64.00 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 64.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 6126 5878
AES 3838
2.89 GB/sec 		3887
2.93 GB/sec
LZMA 5321
8.31 MB/sec 		5201
8.12 MB/sec
JPEG 6333
51.0 Mpixels/sec 		5868
47.2 Mpixels/sec
Canny 5192
72.0 Mpixels/sec 		5422
75.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5984
6.15 MB/sec 		5786
5.95 MB/sec
Dijkstra 8431
5.70 MTE/sec 		6392
4.33 MTE/sec
SQLite 5420
150.3 Krows/sec 		5133
142.3 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5547
25.2 MB/sec 		5029
22.8 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6701
6.07 MElements/sec 		6678
6.05 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 5478
171.2 Mpixels/sec 		5431
169.7 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 7146
189.9 Mpixels/sec 		5831
154.9 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 9919
682.0 functions/sec 		9623
661.6 functions/sec
Camera 6408
17.8 images/sec 		6142
17.0 images/sec
SGEMM 6691
141.4 Gflops 		6048
127.9 Gflops
SFFT 6676
16.6 Gflops 		6365
15.9 Gflops
N-Body Physics 5874
4.39 Mpairs/sec 		5531
4.13 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 5557
811.5 Kpixels/sec 		5142
750.9 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 6904
20211.6 FPS 		6418
18789.5 FPS
HDR 6722
24.4 Mpixels/sec 		6980
25.3 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6864
120.3 Mpixels/sec 		6302
110.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6881
58.9 Words/sec 		6463
55.3 Words/sec
Face Detection 5633
1.65 Msubwindows/sec 		5630
1.64 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5703
15.8 GB/sec 		5956
16.5 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6398
67.7 ns 		6494
66.7 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5210
27.8 GB/sec 		5364
28.6 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 32939 20635
AES 17936
13.5 GB/sec 		17325
13.0 GB/sec
LZMA 42719
66.7 MB/sec 		23649
36.9 MB/sec
JPEG 53157
427.7 Mpixels/sec 		28673
230.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 33926
470.5 Mpixels/sec 		23257
322.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 38699
39.8 MB/sec 		22458
23.1 MB/sec
Dijkstra 29965
20.3 MTE/sec 		24002
16.2 MTE/sec
SQLite 37652
1.04 Mrows/sec 		17277
479.0 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 38667
175.5 MB/sec 		21199
96.2 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 37083
33.6 MElements/sec 		25280
22.9 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 42456
1.33 Gpixels/sec 		22204
693.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 37666
1.00 Gpixels/sec 		24324
646.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 75956
5.22 Kfunctions/sec 		46033
3.17 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 50003
138.6 images/sec 		28839
80.0 images/sec
SGEMM 22860
483.2 Gflops 		17577
371.5 Gflops
SFFT 48136
120.0 Gflops 		26681
66.5 Gflops
N-Body Physics 46179
34.5 Mpairs/sec 		25369
18.9 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 37264
5.44 Mpixels/sec 		24092
3.52 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 59421
173946.6 FPS 		34024
99602.1 FPS
HDR 43565
157.9 Mpixels/sec 		28808
104.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 45963
805.2 Mpixels/sec 		25843
452.7 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 21090
180.4 Words/sec 		16053
137.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 51006
14.9 Msubwindows/sec 		26095
7.62 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 7344
20.3 GB/sec 		6784
18.8 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6274
69.0 ns 		6449
67.1 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5834
31.2 GB/sec 		5676
30.3 GB/sec

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