iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) vs i9-9900K

Geekbench Scores

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) i9-9900K
Single-Core Score 5000 6104
Multi-Core Score 14695 35518
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System Information

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) i9-9900K
Operating System macOS 10.13.3 (Build 17D102) Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS 4.18.0-12-lowlatency x86_64
Model iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Processor Intel Core i5-7500 @ 3.40 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores 		Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.00 GHz
1 Processor, 8 Cores, 16 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 12
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 8
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 8
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 8
L3 Cache 6144 KB 16384 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 iMac18,3 ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 6
BIOS Apple Inc. IM183.88Z.0153.B00.1712141501 American Megatrends Inc. P1.30
Memory 16.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 62.64 GB

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) i9-9900K
Single-Core Score 5000 6104
AES 3243
2.44 GB/sec 		5474
4.12 GB/sec
LZMA 4347
6.79 MB/sec 		5404
8.44 MB/sec
JPEG 4847
39.0 Mpixels/sec 		6246
50.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4588
63.6 Mpixels/sec 		6115
84.8 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4749
4.88 MB/sec 		6189
6.36 MB/sec
Dijkstra 5455
3.69 MTE/sec 		6524
4.41 MTE/sec
SQLite 4196
116.3 Krows/sec 		6450
178.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4007
18.2 MB/sec 		6849
31.1 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5539
5.02 MElements/sec 		5568
5.05 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4411
137.8 Mpixels/sec 		3749
117.2 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4855
129.0 Mpixels/sec 		7756
206.1 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 8049
553.4 functions/sec 		11486
789.7 functions/sec
Camera 5154
14.3 images/sec 		6886
19.1 images/sec
SGEMM 5041
106.6 Gflops 		6671
141.0 Gflops
SFFT 5447
13.6 Gflops 		5189
12.9 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4687
3.50 Mpairs/sec 		6096
4.55 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4326
631.7 Kpixels/sec 		5507
804.3 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 5393
15788.2 FPS 		6130
17946.3 FPS
HDR 5794
21.0 Mpixels/sec 		7307
26.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5155
90.3 Mpixels/sec 		6771
118.6 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5349
45.8 Words/sec 		6667
57.0 Words/sec
Face Detection 4754
1.39 Msubwindows/sec 		5793
1.69 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5235
14.5 GB/sec 		5384
14.9 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6328
68.4 ns 		6460
67.0 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4928
26.3 GB/sec 		4654
24.9 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) i9-9900K
Multi-Core Score 14695 35518
AES 15148
11.4 GB/sec 		15778
11.9 GB/sec
LZMA 14648
22.9 MB/sec 		47392
74.0 MB/sec
JPEG 18113
145.7 Mpixels/sec 		59891
481.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 15590
216.2 Mpixels/sec 		32922
456.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 17526
18.0 MB/sec 		52353
53.8 MB/sec
Dijkstra 14919
10.1 MTE/sec 		28622
19.4 MTE/sec
SQLite 14871
412.3 Krows/sec 		56959
1.58 Mrows/sec
HTML5 Parse 14192
64.4 MB/sec 		54367
246.8 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 19184
17.4 MElements/sec 		24159
21.9 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 15617
488.0 Mpixels/sec 		40630
1.27 Gpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 15267
405.6 Mpixels/sec 		34995
929.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 28834
1.98 Kfunctions/sec 		105508
7.25 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 19204
53.2 images/sec 		60586
168.0 images/sec
SGEMM 14194
300.0 Gflops 		24245
512.5 Gflops
SFFT 19532
48.7 Gflops 		50103
124.9 Gflops
N-Body Physics 17798
13.3 Mpairs/sec 		52959
39.6 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 14609
2.13 Mpixels/sec 		45208
6.60 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 20156
59003.8 FPS 		61715
180662.0 FPS
HDR 19702
71.4 Mpixels/sec 		48010
174.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 18729
328.1 Mpixels/sec 		53735
941.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 12740
109.0 Words/sec 		18257
156.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 18078
5.28 Msubwindows/sec 		53004
15.5 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 6128
17.0 GB/sec 		6441
17.8 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6197
69.9 ns 		6389
67.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5268
28.1 GB/sec 		5137
27.4 GB/sec

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