iMac (27-inch Late 2009) vs Mac mini (Late 2014)

Geekbench Scores

iMac (27-inch Late 2009) Mac mini (Late 2014)
Single-Core Score 2790 3452
Multi-Core Score 8835 6414
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System Information

iMac (27-inch Late 2009) Mac mini (Late 2014)
Operating System macOS 10.12.5 (Build 16F73) Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G31)
Model iMac (27-inch Late 2009) Mac mini (Late 2014)
Processor Intel Core i7-860 @ 2.80 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i5-4308U @ 2.80 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 30 Stepping 5 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 69 Stepping 1
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 3072 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F2268DAE Apple Inc. Mac-35C5E08120C7EEAF Macmini7,1
BIOS Apple Inc. IM111.88Z.0034.B04.1509231906 Apple Inc. MM71.88Z.0220.B07.1602221546
Memory 32.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Late 2009) Mac mini (Late 2014)
Single-Core Score 2790 3452
AES 142
110.2 MB/sec 		3098
2.33 GB/sec
LZMA 3360
5.25 MB/sec 		3109
4.86 MB/sec
JPEG 3351
27.0 Mpixels/sec 		3890
31.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3225
44.7 Mpixels/sec 		3405
47.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2399
2.47 MB/sec 		3544
3.64 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3470
2.35 MTE/sec 		3514
2.38 MTE/sec
SQLite 2500
69.3 Krows/sec 		3422
94.9 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2498
11.3 MB/sec 		3203
14.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3570
3.24 MElements/sec 		3569
3.23 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2237
69.9 Mpixels/sec 		3396
106.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3164
84.1 Mpixels/sec 		3261
86.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5241
360.4 functions/sec 		4151
285.4 functions/sec
Camera 3467
9.62 images/sec 		3806
10.6 images/sec
SGEMM 936
19.8 Gflops 		3011
63.7 Gflops
SFFT 2011
5.01 Gflops 		3599
8.97 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2101
1.57 Mpairs/sec 		3278
2.45 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2165
316.2 Kpixels/sec 		2963
432.7 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3510
10275.9 FPS 		3834
11225.2 FPS
HDR 2693
9.76 Mpixels/sec 		3539
12.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2921
51.2 Mpixels/sec 		3494
61.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3628
31.0 Words/sec 		3049
26.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 2836
828.4 Ksubwindows/sec 		3592
1.05 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 2642
7.32 GB/sec 		3029
8.39 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6180
70.1 ns 		5150
11.9 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 2239
12.0 GB/sec 		2856
15.3 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Late 2009) Mac mini (Late 2014)
Multi-Core Score 8835 6414
AES 525
405.6 MB/sec 		5882
4.43 GB/sec
LZMA 14677
22.9 MB/sec 		7263
11.3 MB/sec
JPEG 14529
116.9 Mpixels/sec 		9411
75.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 11746
162.9 Mpixels/sec 		7731
107.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 10177
10.5 MB/sec 		6827
7.02 MB/sec
Dijkstra 11830
8.00 MTE/sec 		8005
5.42 MTE/sec
SQLite 7807
216.5 Krows/sec 		6283
174.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 9048
41.1 MB/sec 		6388
29.0 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 12400
11.2 MElements/sec 		3856
3.49 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 10396
324.8 Mpixels/sec 		7433
232.2 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 10664
283.3 Mpixels/sec 		7040
187.1 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 21554
1.48 Kfunctions/sec 		8142
559.9 functions/sec
Camera 13380
37.1 images/sec 		9258
25.7 images/sec
SGEMM 3090
65.3 Gflops 		5026
106.2 Gflops
SFFT 8244
20.6 Gflops 		7560
18.8 Gflops
N-Body Physics 8076
6.03 Mpairs/sec 		6990
5.22 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 9377
1.37 Mpixels/sec 		6759
987.0 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 15074
44129.2 FPS 		9762
28577.5 FPS
HDR 11090
40.2 Mpixels/sec 		8412
30.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 10452
183.1 Mpixels/sec 		7623
133.5 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 9395
80.4 Words/sec 		5393
46.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 11380
3.32 Msubwindows/sec 		7991
2.33 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3188
8.83 GB/sec 		3726
10.3 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6039
71.7 ns 		5041
11.6 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 2799
14.9 GB/sec 		2958
15.8 GB/sec

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