Mac mini (Late 2018) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Single-Core Score 5101 5723
Multi-Core Score 20253 19621
Geekbench 4.4.4 Tryout Geekbench 4.2.2 Tryout

System Information

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Operating System macOS 10.15.7 (Build 19H15) macOS 10.13.3 (Build 17D102)
Model Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Processor Intel Core i5-8500B @ 3.00 GHz
1 Processor, 6 Cores 		Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.01 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 94 Stepping 3
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 3 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 3 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 3 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 9216 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C Macmini8,1 Apple Inc. Mac-B809C3757DA9BB8D 1.0
BIOS Apple Inc. 1554.140.20.0.0 (iBridge: 18.16.14759.0.1,0) Apple Inc. IM171.88Z.0151.B00.1802080854
Memory 8.00 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 16.00 GB 0 MHz RAM

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Single-Core Score 5101 5723
AES 3240
2.44 GB/sec 		3763
2.83 GB/sec
LZMA 4463
6.97 MB/sec 		5057
7.90 MB/sec
JPEG 5157
41.5 Mpixels/sec 		5636
45.4 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4465
61.9 Mpixels/sec 		5322
73.8 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4877
5.01 MB/sec 		5531
5.69 MB/sec
Dijkstra 6101
4.13 MTE/sec 		6641
4.49 MTE/sec
SQLite 4458
123.6 Krows/sec 		4800
133.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4386
19.9 MB/sec 		4664
21.2 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5750
5.21 MElements/sec 		6356
5.76 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4720
147.5 Mpixels/sec 		5092
159.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 6096
162.0 Mpixels/sec 		5627
149.5 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 8299
570.7 functions/sec 		9329
641.4 functions/sec
Camera 5328
14.8 images/sec 		5909
16.4 images/sec
SGEMM 5574
117.8 Gflops 		5861
123.9 Gflops
SFFT 5692
14.2 Gflops 		6251
15.6 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4987
3.72 Mpairs/sec 		5138
3.84 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4597
671.3 Kpixels/sec 		5036
735.5 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 5767
16883.3 FPS 		6264
18338.7 FPS
HDR 5640
20.4 Mpixels/sec 		6627
24.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5576
97.7 Mpixels/sec 		5986
104.9 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5849
50.0 Words/sec 		6295
53.9 Words/sec
Face Detection 5129
1.50 Msubwindows/sec 		5390
1.57 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4342
12.0 GB/sec 		6021
16.7 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5663
76.5 ns 		6741
64.2 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4426
23.6 GB/sec 		5360
28.6 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Multi-Core Score 20253 19621
AES 11233
8.46 GB/sec 		16178
12.2 GB/sec
LZMA 22187
34.7 MB/sec 		23085
36.1 MB/sec
JPEG 29650
238.6 Mpixels/sec 		27283
219.5 Mpixels/sec
Canny 20370
282.5 Mpixels/sec 		23057
319.7 Mpixels/sec
Lua 26718
27.5 MB/sec 		21361
22.0 MB/sec
Dijkstra 15942
10.8 MTE/sec 		23003
15.6 MTE/sec
SQLite 24798
687.5 Krows/sec 		14981
415.3 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 23114
104.9 MB/sec 		20049
91.0 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 28699
26.0 MElements/sec 		23585
21.4 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 26366
823.8 Mpixels/sec 		21970
686.5 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 22434
596.0 Mpixels/sec 		22809
606.0 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 44255
3.04 Kfunctions/sec 		42614
2.93 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 29102
80.7 images/sec 		27316
75.7 images/sec
SGEMM 13753
290.7 Gflops 		15095
319.1 Gflops
SFFT 32284
80.5 Gflops 		25968
64.7 Gflops
N-Body Physics 28221
21.1 Mpairs/sec 		24028
17.9 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 22080
3.22 Mpixels/sec 		23078
3.37 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 32216
94307.9 FPS 		32710
95754.6 FPS
HDR 24203
87.7 Mpixels/sec 		27095
98.2 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 31614
553.8 Mpixels/sec 		24315
426.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 14978
128.2 Words/sec 		16674
142.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 29285
8.55 Msubwindows/sec 		24899
7.27 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4462
12.4 GB/sec 		6614
18.3 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5626
77.0 ns 		6698
64.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4536
24.2 GB/sec 		5432
29.0 GB/sec

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