iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)

Geekbench Scores

iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Single-Core Score 5783 5606
Multi-Core Score 22961 19782
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System Information

iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Operating System macOS 10.15.7 (Build 19H1824) macOS 10.13 (Build 17A365)
Model iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Processor Intel Core i5-9600K @ 3.70 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 13 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-AA95B1DDAB278B95 iMac19,1 Apple Inc. Mac-B809C3757DA9BB8D iMac17,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 1731.100.125.0.0 Apple Inc. IM171.88Z.0110.B00.1708080012
Memory 32.00 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 16.00 GB 0 MHz RAM

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Single-Core Score 5783 5606
AES 3721
2.80 GB/sec 		3645
2.75 GB/sec
LZMA 4914
7.68 MB/sec 		5100
7.97 MB/sec
JPEG 5869
47.2 Mpixels/sec 		5669
45.6 Mpixels/sec
Canny 5042
69.9 Mpixels/sec 		5311
73.7 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5582
5.74 MB/sec 		5520
5.67 MB/sec
Dijkstra 6997
4.73 MTE/sec 		6226
4.21 MTE/sec
SQLite 4992
138.4 Krows/sec 		4922
136.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5229
23.7 MB/sec 		4788
21.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6182
5.60 MElements/sec 		6447
5.84 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 5269
164.6 Mpixels/sec 		5075
158.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 6665
177.1 Mpixels/sec 		5709
151.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 9207
633.1 functions/sec 		9311
640.2 functions/sec
Camera 5750
15.9 images/sec 		5969
16.6 images/sec
SGEMM 6109
129.1 Gflops 		5831
123.3 Gflops
SFFT 6283
15.7 Gflops 		6130
15.3 Gflops
N-Body Physics 5477
4.09 Mpairs/sec 		5441
4.06 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 5107
745.8 Kpixels/sec 		4956
723.8 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 6389
18704.8 FPS 		6239
18266.6 FPS
HDR 6297
22.8 Mpixels/sec 		6715
24.3 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6251
109.5 Mpixels/sec 		5906
103.5 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6406
54.8 Words/sec 		6241
53.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 5550
1.62 Msubwindows/sec 		5294
1.55 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5732
15.9 GB/sec 		5339
14.8 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6577
65.8 ns 		6698
64.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5195
27.7 GB/sec 		4500
24.0 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Multi-Core Score 22961 19782
AES 18537
14.0 GB/sec 		13121
9.88 GB/sec
LZMA 24418
38.1 MB/sec 		23150
36.2 MB/sec
JPEG 32617
262.4 Mpixels/sec 		26964
217.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 24616
341.4 Mpixels/sec 		21957
304.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 29483
30.3 MB/sec 		21040
21.6 MB/sec
Dijkstra 22086
14.9 MTE/sec 		21364
14.5 MTE/sec
SQLite 26590
737.2 Krows/sec 		17047
472.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 30055
136.4 MB/sec 		20212
91.8 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 31080
28.2 MElements/sec 		26645
24.1 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 28923
903.7 Mpixels/sec 		21950
685.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 29120
773.6 Mpixels/sec 		22421
595.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 48323
3.32 Kfunctions/sec 		44408
3.05 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 29890
82.9 images/sec 		27814
77.1 images/sec
SGEMM 18299
386.8 Gflops 		19114
404.0 Gflops
SFFT 25143
62.7 Gflops 		26367
65.7 Gflops
N-Body Physics 29503
22.0 Mpairs/sec 		24849
18.6 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 20077
2.93 Mpixels/sec 		23072
3.37 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 31342
91750.6 FPS 		32648
95573.3 FPS
HDR 27487
99.6 Mpixels/sec 		27615
100.1 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 33025
578.5 Mpixels/sec 		24907
436.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 17846
152.7 Words/sec 		16709
143.0 Words/sec
Face Detection 32000
9.35 Msubwindows/sec 		25492
7.45 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 6747
18.7 GB/sec 		6094
16.9 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6277
69.0 ns 		6813
63.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5978
31.9 GB/sec 		4511
24.1 GB/sec

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