iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) vs Mac mini (Mid 2011)

Geekbench Scores

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Single-Core Score 1862 2945
Multi-Core Score 4369 5463
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System Information

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Operating System macOS 10.12.6 (Build 16G29) macOS 10.13.6 (Build 17G65)
Model iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Processor Intel Core i5-7600K @ 3.80 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores 		Intel Core i5-2415M @ 2.30 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 6144 KB 3072 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 iMac18,3 Apple Inc. Mac-8ED6AF5B48C039E1 Macmini5,1
BIOS Apple Inc. IM183.88Z.0145.B09.1706181606 Apple Inc. MM51.88Z.0080.B00.1804091930
Memory 8.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 4.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Single-Core Score 1862 2945
AES 3389
2.55 GB/sec 		2337
1.76 GB/sec
LZMA 1616
2.52 MB/sec 		2985
4.66 MB/sec
JPEG 2020
16.3 Mpixels/sec 		3227
26.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 1531
21.2 Mpixels/sec 		2786
38.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 1971
2.03 MB/sec 		2044
2.10 MB/sec
Dijkstra 1493
1.01 MTE/sec 		3400
2.30 MTE/sec
SQLite 1377
38.2 Krows/sec 		2272
63.0 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 1744
7.92 MB/sec 		2302
10.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 1850
1.68 MElements/sec 		3663
3.32 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 1454
45.4 Mpixels/sec 		2643
82.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 1404
37.3 Mpixels/sec 		2650
70.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 2542
174.8 functions/sec 		4701
323.2 functions/sec
Camera 1725
4.78 images/sec 		3056
8.48 images/sec
SGEMM 1505
31.8 Gflops 		1559
33.0 Gflops
SFFT 5759
14.4 Gflops 		3026
7.54 Gflops
N-Body Physics 1962
1.47 Mpairs/sec 		2248
1.68 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 1404
205.0 Kpixels/sec 		2342
342.1 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 1807
5290.5 FPS 		3482
10193.3 FPS
HDR 1862
6.75 Mpixels/sec 		2705
9.81 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2338
41.0 Mpixels/sec 		3019
52.9 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 1541
13.2 Words/sec 		2824
24.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 3417
998.2 Ksubwindows/sec 		2908
849.6 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 1267
3.51 GB/sec 		2954
8.19 GB/sec
Memory Latency 1911
226.4 ns 		6469
66.9 ns
Memory Bandwidth 1163
6.21 GB/sec 		2614
14.0 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Multi-Core Score 4369 5463
AES 4367
3.29 GB/sec 		4788
3.61 GB/sec
LZMA 3591
5.61 MB/sec 		6475
10.1 MB/sec
JPEG 4490
36.1 Mpixels/sec 		7564
60.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3985
55.3 Mpixels/sec 		6382
88.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4400
4.52 MB/sec 		4822
4.96 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4287
2.90 MTE/sec 		8134
5.50 MTE/sec
SQLite 4246
117.7 Krows/sec 		4855
134.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3998
18.2 MB/sec 		4879
22.2 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5273
4.78 MElements/sec 		5182
4.70 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4262
133.2 Mpixels/sec 		5618
175.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4028
107.0 Mpixels/sec 		5661
150.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7365
506.4 functions/sec 		10197
701.1 functions/sec
Camera 4778
13.3 images/sec 		7073
19.6 images/sec
SGEMM 4290
90.7 Gflops 		2837
60.0 Gflops
SFFT 21584
53.8 Gflops 		5818
14.5 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4412
3.30 Mpairs/sec 		4673
3.49 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4045
590.8 Kpixels/sec 		5310
775.5 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 5205
15239.4 FPS 		8142
23835.1 FPS
HDR 5295
19.2 Mpixels/sec 		6109
22.1 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5316
93.1 Mpixels/sec 		5595
98.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3865
33.1 Words/sec 		5495
47.0 Words/sec
Face Detection 5768
1.68 Msubwindows/sec 		6262
1.83 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 2023
5.61 GB/sec 		3370
9.34 GB/sec
Memory Latency 1787
242.2 ns 		5856
73.9 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3271
17.5 GB/sec 		3215
17.2 GB/sec

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