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

Geekbench Scores

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Single-Core Score 3629 6029
Multi-Core Score 11899 27591
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System Information

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G1421) macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G95)
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 i7-8700B @ 3.20 GHz
1 Processor, 6 Cores, 12 Threads
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 6
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 6
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 6
L3 Cache 8192 KB 12288 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-942B59F58194171B iMac12,2 Apple Inc. Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C Macmini8,1
BIOS Apple Inc. IM121.88Z.0047.B25.1611011518 Apple Inc. 220.270.99.0.0 (iBridge: 16.16.6571.0.0,0)
Memory 32.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 32.00 GB 2667 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Single-Core Score 3629 6029
AES 3023
2.28 GB/sec 		4943
3.72 GB/sec
LZMA 3783
5.91 MB/sec 		5253
8.20 MB/sec
JPEG 4136
33.3 Mpixels/sec 		5945
47.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3599
49.9 Mpixels/sec 		5503
76.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2621
2.69 MB/sec 		5701
5.86 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4156
2.81 MTE/sec 		8081
5.47 MTE/sec
SQLite 3018
83.7 Krows/sec 		5157
143.0 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2995
13.6 MB/sec 		5750
26.1 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4645
4.21 MElements/sec 		6505
5.89 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3359
105.0 Mpixels/sec 		5296
165.5 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3661
97.3 Mpixels/sec 		6903
183.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 6161
423.6 functions/sec 		9754
670.7 functions/sec
Camera 4066
11.3 images/sec 		6097
16.9 images/sec
SGEMM 2133
45.1 Gflops 		6300
133.2 Gflops
SFFT 3834
9.56 Gflops 		6440
16.1 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2942
2.20 Mpairs/sec 		5669
4.23 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3015
440.3 Kpixels/sec 		5205
760.1 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4428
12962.5 FPS 		6511
19061.8 FPS
HDR 3497
12.7 Mpixels/sec 		6994
25.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3944
69.1 Mpixels/sec 		6427
112.6 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4483
38.4 Words/sec 		6705
57.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 3736
1.09 Msubwindows/sec 		5731
1.67 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3006
8.33 GB/sec 		5875
16.3 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6091
71.1 ns 		5884
73.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2814
15.0 GB/sec 		5171
27.6 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Multi-Core Score 11899 27591
AES 7737
5.83 GB/sec 		17113
12.9 GB/sec
LZMA 16489
25.8 MB/sec 		34149
53.3 MB/sec
JPEG 19312
155.4 Mpixels/sec 		41054
330.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 13928
193.1 Mpixels/sec 		29293
406.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 12394
12.7 MB/sec 		31575
32.4 MB/sec
Dijkstra 14543
9.84 MTE/sec 		26842
18.2 MTE/sec
SQLite 10537
292.1 Krows/sec 		30355
841.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 12227
55.5 MB/sec 		33610
152.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 14329
13.0 MElements/sec 		32594
29.5 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 13995
437.3 Mpixels/sec 		33414
1.04 Gpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 12606
334.9 Mpixels/sec 		35354
939.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 26940
1.85 Kfunctions/sec 		62317
4.28 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 17648
48.9 images/sec 		40956
113.6 images/sec
SGEMM 7528
159.1 Gflops 		21749
459.7 Gflops
SFFT 15385
38.4 Gflops 		36330
90.6 Gflops
N-Body Physics 11898
8.89 Mpairs/sec 		35996
26.9 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 13289
1.94 Mpixels/sec 		31622
4.62 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 20566
60206.6 FPS 		47098
137874.8 FPS
HDR 15023
54.5 Mpixels/sec 		38064
138.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 14388
252.1 Mpixels/sec 		33984
595.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 10486
89.7 Words/sec 		19587
167.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 15931
4.65 Msubwindows/sec 		37404
10.9 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3401
9.42 GB/sec 		6796
18.8 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5903
73.3 ns 		5729
75.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2951
15.8 GB/sec 		5580
29.8 GB/sec

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