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

Geekbench Scores

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Single-Core Score 3635 6029
Multi-Core Score 11870 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 3635 6029
AES 3023
2.28 GB/sec 		4943
3.72 GB/sec
LZMA 3763
5.88 MB/sec 		5253
8.20 MB/sec
JPEG 4140
33.3 Mpixels/sec 		5945
47.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3575
49.6 Mpixels/sec 		5503
76.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2661
2.74 MB/sec 		5701
5.86 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4394
2.97 MTE/sec 		8081
5.47 MTE/sec
SQLite 3033
84.1 Krows/sec 		5157
143.0 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2968
13.5 MB/sec 		5750
26.1 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4646
4.21 MElements/sec 		6505
5.89 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3279
102.5 Mpixels/sec 		5296
165.5 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3675
97.7 Mpixels/sec 		6903
183.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 6150
422.9 functions/sec 		9754
670.7 functions/sec
Camera 4095
11.4 images/sec 		6097
16.9 images/sec
SGEMM 2120
44.8 Gflops 		6300
133.2 Gflops
SFFT 3853
9.61 Gflops 		6440
16.1 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2931
2.19 Mpairs/sec 		5669
4.23 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3029
442.4 Kpixels/sec 		5205
760.1 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4458
13050.7 FPS 		6511
19061.8 FPS
HDR 3514
12.7 Mpixels/sec 		6994
25.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3937
69.0 Mpixels/sec 		6427
112.6 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4504
38.5 Words/sec 		6705
57.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 3709
1.08 Msubwindows/sec 		5731
1.67 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3007
8.33 GB/sec 		5875
16.3 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6078
71.2 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 11870 27591
AES 7696
5.80 GB/sec 		17113
12.9 GB/sec
LZMA 16490
25.8 MB/sec 		34149
53.3 MB/sec
JPEG 19589
157.6 Mpixels/sec 		41054
330.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 13869
192.3 Mpixels/sec 		29293
406.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 12126
12.5 MB/sec 		31575
32.4 MB/sec
Dijkstra 14566
9.86 MTE/sec 		26842
18.2 MTE/sec
SQLite 10667
295.7 Krows/sec 		30355
841.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 12435
56.5 MB/sec 		33610
152.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 14295
13.0 MElements/sec 		32594
29.5 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 13837
432.3 Mpixels/sec 		33414
1.04 Gpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 12293
326.6 Mpixels/sec 		35354
939.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 26871
1.85 Kfunctions/sec 		62317
4.28 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 17672
49.0 images/sec 		40956
113.6 images/sec
SGEMM 7466
157.8 Gflops 		21749
459.7 Gflops
SFFT 15377
38.3 Gflops 		36330
90.6 Gflops
N-Body Physics 11884
8.88 Mpairs/sec 		35996
26.9 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 13356
1.95 Mpixels/sec 		31622
4.62 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 20701
60599.3 FPS 		47098
137874.8 FPS
HDR 14908
54.0 Mpixels/sec 		38064
138.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 14283
250.2 Mpixels/sec 		33984
595.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 10351
88.6 Words/sec 		19587
167.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 15948
4.66 Msubwindows/sec 		37404
10.9 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3386
9.38 GB/sec 		6796
18.8 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5909
73.3 ns 		5729
75.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2924
15.6 GB/sec 		5580
29.8 GB/sec

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