iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) vs Mac mini (Late 2018)

Geekbench Scores

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Single-Core Score 3615 4560
Multi-Core Score 11908 13780
Geekbench 4.4.4 Geekbench 4.3.3 Tryout

System Information

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Operating System macOS 10.13.6 (Build 17G14042) macOS 10.15.4 (Build 19E287)
Model iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Processor Intel Core i7-2600 @ 3.40 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i3-8100B @ 3.60 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 8192 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-942B59F58194171B iMac12,2 Apple Inc. Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C Macmini8,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 87.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. 1037.100.362.0.0 (iBridge: 17.16.14281.0.0,0)
Memory 4.00 GB 0 MHz RAM 8.00 GB 2667 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Single-Core Score 3615 4560
AES 2932
2.21 GB/sec 		2970
2.24 GB/sec
LZMA 3883
6.06 MB/sec 		4027
6.29 MB/sec
JPEG 4020
32.3 Mpixels/sec 		4324
34.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3422
47.5 Mpixels/sec 		4065
56.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2555
2.63 MB/sec 		4445
4.57 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4343
2.94 MTE/sec 		5284
3.58 MTE/sec
SQLite 2860
79.3 Krows/sec 		3944
109.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2941
13.4 MB/sec 		3818
17.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4656
4.22 MElements/sec 		4789
4.34 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3366
105.2 Mpixels/sec 		4182
130.7 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3529
93.8 Mpixels/sec 		5351
142.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5966
410.3 functions/sec 		7386
507.8 functions/sec
Camera 4008
11.1 images/sec 		4576
12.7 images/sec
SGEMM 2145
45.4 Gflops 		4630
97.9 Gflops
SFFT 3219
8.03 Gflops 		4297
10.7 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2934
2.19 Mpairs/sec 		4395
3.28 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3027
442.1 Kpixels/sec 		4044
590.6 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4433
12978.8 FPS 		5087
14892.5 FPS
HDR 3498
12.7 Mpixels/sec 		5115
18.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3821
66.9 Mpixels/sec 		4919
86.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4561
39.0 Words/sec 		4630
39.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 3704
1.08 Msubwindows/sec 		4505
1.32 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3180
8.81 GB/sec 		4250
11.8 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6531
66.3 ns 		5923
73.1 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2885
15.4 GB/sec 		4349
23.2 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Multi-Core Score 11908 13780
AES 9349
7.04 GB/sec 		12641
9.52 GB/sec
LZMA 16640
26.0 MB/sec 		13899
21.7 MB/sec
JPEG 18868
151.8 Mpixels/sec 		16944
136.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 13983
193.9 Mpixels/sec 		14422
200.0 Mpixels/sec
Lua 11805
12.1 MB/sec 		16210
16.7 MB/sec
Dijkstra 14810
10.0 MTE/sec 		13989
9.47 MTE/sec
SQLite 10299
285.5 Krows/sec 		14253
395.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 12163
55.2 MB/sec 		13789
62.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 15020
13.6 MElements/sec 		18781
17.0 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 13987
437.0 Mpixels/sec 		15971
499.0 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 12051
320.2 Mpixels/sec 		16946
450.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 25424
1.75 Kfunctions/sec 		26392
1.81 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 17005
47.2 images/sec 		16358
45.4 images/sec
SGEMM 7639
161.5 Gflops 		12649
267.4 Gflops
SFFT 15269
38.1 Gflops 		19929
49.7 Gflops
N-Body Physics 11659
8.71 Mpairs/sec 		17242
12.9 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 13297
1.94 Mpixels/sec 		14354
2.10 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 20455
59881.5 FPS 		19708
57694.6 FPS
HDR 14632
53.0 Mpixels/sec 		17587
63.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 13346
233.8 Mpixels/sec 		18903
331.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 11174
95.6 Words/sec 		11265
96.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 15720
4.59 Msubwindows/sec 		17316
5.06 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3682
10.2 GB/sec 		4443
12.3 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6268
69.1 ns 		5736
75.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3090
16.5 GB/sec 		4462
23.8 GB/sec

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