iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)

Geekbench Scores

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Single-Core Score 4641 5538
Multi-Core Score 18009 17803
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System Information

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Operating System macOS 13.3.1 (a) (Build 22E772610a) macOS 10.12.1 (Build 16B2657)
Model iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Processor Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.20 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.01 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 94 Stepping 3
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 8192 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 iMac18,3 Apple Inc. Mac-65CE76090165799A iMac17,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 509.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. IM171.88Z.0105.B00.1509221819
Memory 24.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 32.00 GB 2666 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Single-Core Score 4641 5538
AES 3048
2.30 GB/sec 		3606
2.72 GB/sec
LZMA 3395
5.30 MB/sec 		4937
7.71 MB/sec
JPEG 5276
42.5 Mpixels/sec 		5550
44.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4383
60.8 Mpixels/sec 		5231
72.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5048
5.19 MB/sec 		5238
5.38 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4553
3.08 MTE/sec 		5965
4.04 MTE/sec
SQLite 4234
117.4 Krows/sec 		4921
136.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4135
18.8 MB/sec 		4725
21.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6124
5.55 MElements/sec 		5182
4.70 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4663
145.7 Mpixels/sec 		4779
149.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 6092
161.8 Mpixels/sec 		5516
146.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7783
535.2 functions/sec 		6232
428.5 functions/sec
Camera 5197
14.4 images/sec 		5682
15.8 images/sec
SGEMM 4689
99.1 Gflops 		5829
123.2 Gflops
SFFT 5506
13.7 Gflops 		6043
15.1 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4861
3.63 Mpairs/sec 		5246
3.92 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4446
649.3 Kpixels/sec 		4881
712.9 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 5535
16203.8 FPS 		5866
17174.6 FPS
HDR 5383
19.5 Mpixels/sec 		6308
22.9 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4951
86.7 Mpixels/sec 		5564
97.5 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4064
34.8 Words/sec 		6099
52.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 4803
1.40 Msubwindows/sec 		5227
1.53 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3750
10.4 GB/sec 		6314
17.5 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5604
77.3 ns 		7057
16.3 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 2924
15.6 GB/sec 		5761
30.8 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Multi-Core Score 18009 17803
AES 11457
8.63 GB/sec 		18616
14.0 GB/sec
LZMA 20954
32.7 MB/sec 		21946
34.3 MB/sec
JPEG 23558
189.6 Mpixels/sec 		25961
208.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 18980
263.2 Mpixels/sec 		22172
307.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 20102
20.7 MB/sec 		20439
21.0 MB/sec
Dijkstra 19161
13.0 MTE/sec 		24356
16.5 MTE/sec
SQLite 18928
524.7 Krows/sec 		9849
273.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 17280
78.5 MB/sec 		19094
86.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 29587
26.8 MElements/sec 		14374
13.0 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 21338
666.7 Mpixels/sec 		20408
637.7 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 22607
600.6 Mpixels/sec 		22920
608.9 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 43134
2.97 Kfunctions/sec 		12317
846.9 functions/sec
Camera 24253
67.2 images/sec 		25940
71.9 images/sec
SGEMM 12152
256.9 Gflops 		18944
400.4 Gflops
SFFT 23776
59.3 Gflops 		23843
59.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 22269
16.6 Mpairs/sec 		22131
16.5 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 20961
3.06 Mpixels/sec 		21553
3.15 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 30043
87947.9 FPS 		30201
88410.7 FPS
HDR 22399
81.2 Mpixels/sec 		26626
96.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 23014
403.2 Mpixels/sec 		23072
404.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 13633
116.6 Words/sec 		17429
149.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 24801
7.24 Msubwindows/sec 		23739
6.93 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5431
15.0 GB/sec 		7561
20.9 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6389
67.8 ns 		7063
16.3 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 4226
22.6 GB/sec 		6275
33.5 GB/sec

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