iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010) vs Mac mini (Late 2012) with 4 GB Samsung

Geekbench Scores

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010) Mac mini (Late 2012) with 4 GB Samsung
Single-Core Score 2656 2984
Multi-Core Score 5963 9631
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System Information

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010) Mac mini (Late 2012) with 4 GB Samsung
Operating System macOS 10.16 (Build 20G630) macOS 10.13.6 (Build 17G65)
Model iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Processor Intel Core i5-680 @ 3.60 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 2.30 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 37 Stepping 5 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
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 4096 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F2238AC8 Apple Inc. Mac-F65AE981FFA204ED Macmini6,2
BIOS Apple Inc. 99.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. MM61.88Z.010E.B00.1804111136
Memory 12.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 4.00 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010) Mac mini (Late 2012) with 4 GB Samsung
Single-Core Score 2656 2984
AES 1734
1.31 GB/sec 		2528
1.90 GB/sec
LZMA 2791
4.36 MB/sec 		2996
4.68 MB/sec
JPEG 3000
24.1 Mpixels/sec 		3351
27.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 2851
39.5 Mpixels/sec 		2977
41.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2363
2.43 MB/sec 		2162
2.22 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3248
2.20 MTE/sec 		3280
2.22 MTE/sec
SQLite 2136
59.2 Krows/sec 		2394
66.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2311
10.5 MB/sec 		2442
11.1 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 2993
2.71 MElements/sec 		3922
3.55 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2652
82.9 Mpixels/sec 		2754
86.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 2920
77.6 Mpixels/sec 		2872
76.3 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 4732
325.4 functions/sec 		4859
334.1 functions/sec
Camera 3613
10.0 images/sec 		3355
9.30 images/sec
SGEMM 944
20.0 Gflops 		1766
37.3 Gflops
SFFT 2417
6.03 Gflops 		3301
8.23 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2323
1.74 Mpairs/sec 		2785
2.08 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2501
365.3 Kpixels/sec 		2649
386.9 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4101
12006.4 FPS 		3715
10877.4 FPS
HDR 3009
10.9 Mpixels/sec 		3152
11.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3098
54.3 Mpixels/sec 		3089
54.1 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3281
28.1 Words/sec 		3192
27.3 Words/sec
Face Detection 3444
1.01 Msubwindows/sec 		3014
880.6 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 2083
5.77 GB/sec 		2820
7.81 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4372
99.0 ns 		4773
90.7 ns
Memory Bandwidth 1502
8.03 GB/sec 		2178
11.6 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010) Mac mini (Late 2012) with 4 GB Samsung
Multi-Core Score 5963 9631
AES 4278
3.22 GB/sec 		5991
4.51 GB/sec
LZMA 8379
13.1 MB/sec 		12757
19.9 MB/sec
JPEG 9298
74.8 Mpixels/sec 		16027
129.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 7403
102.7 Mpixels/sec 		11922
165.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 6611
6.79 MB/sec 		9470
9.73 MB/sec
Dijkstra 8014
5.42 MTE/sec 		11405
7.72 MTE/sec
SQLite 5598
155.2 Krows/sec 		8760
242.9 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5972
27.1 MB/sec 		10142
46.0 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6785
6.15 MElements/sec 		8891
8.06 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 7582
236.9 Mpixels/sec 		11672
364.7 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 7476
198.6 Mpixels/sec 		9771
259.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 12857
884.0 functions/sec 		21221
1.46 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 8856
24.6 images/sec 		15803
43.8 images/sec
SGEMM 1907
40.3 Gflops 		5432
114.8 Gflops
SFFT 5388
13.4 Gflops 		12362
30.8 Gflops
N-Body Physics 5145
3.84 Mpairs/sec 		11304
8.44 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 6072
886.7 Kpixels/sec 		11528
1.68 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 10014
29317.2 FPS 		17296
50631.7 FPS
HDR 7014
25.4 Mpixels/sec 		12947
46.9 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6808
119.3 Mpixels/sec 		12293
215.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5180
44.3 Words/sec 		8284
70.9 Words/sec
Face Detection 7777
2.27 Msubwindows/sec 		12570
3.67 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 2374
6.58 GB/sec 		3224
8.93 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4308
100.5 ns 		4881
88.7 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2277
12.2 GB/sec 		2291
12.2 GB/sec

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