iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, Late 2015) vs Mac mini (Late 2018)

Geekbench Scores

iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, Late 2015) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Single-Core Score 4388 4849
Multi-Core Score 12916 15011
Geekbench 4.0.1 Geekbench 4.3.1 Tryout

System Information

iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, Late 2015) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Operating System macOS 10.12 (Build 16A323) macOS 10.14.1 (Build 18B75)
Model iMac (21.5-inch Retina Late 2015) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Processor Intel Core i5-5675R @ 3.10 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores 		Intel Core i3-8100B @ 3.60 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 71 Stepping 1 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10
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 4096 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-FFE5EF870D7BA81A iMac16,2 Apple Inc. Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C Macmini8,1
BIOS Apple Inc. IM162.88Z.0206.B01.1607221823 Apple Inc. 220.220.102.0.0 (iBridge: 16.16.1065.0.0,0)
Memory 8.00 GB 1867 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 2667 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, Late 2015) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Single-Core Score 4388 4849
AES 3682
2.77 GB/sec 		3095
2.33 GB/sec
LZMA 4090
6.39 MB/sec 		4135
6.46 MB/sec
JPEG 4463
35.9 Mpixels/sec 		4620
37.2 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4267
59.2 Mpixels/sec 		4369
60.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4212
4.33 MB/sec 		4545
4.67 MB/sec
Dijkstra 5209
3.52 MTE/sec 		5494
3.72 MTE/sec
SQLite 3970
110.1 Krows/sec 		3974
110.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3697
16.8 MB/sec 		4071
18.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4051
3.67 MElements/sec 		5162
4.68 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3904
122.0 Mpixels/sec 		4262
133.2 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3991
106.0 Mpixels/sec 		5710
151.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 4958
340.9 functions/sec 		7573
520.7 functions/sec
Camera 4427
12.3 images/sec 		4880
13.5 images/sec
SGEMM 3975
84.0 Gflops 		4880
103.2 Gflops
SFFT 4760
11.9 Gflops 		5209
13.0 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4190
3.13 Mpairs/sec 		4436
3.31 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4057
592.4 Kpixels/sec 		4101
599.0 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4978
14573.8 FPS 		5115
14976.3 FPS
HDR 4813
17.5 Mpixels/sec 		5547
20.1 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3967
69.5 Mpixels/sec 		4955
86.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4805
41.1 Words/sec 		5086
43.5 Words/sec
Face Detection 4328
1.26 Msubwindows/sec 		4518
1.32 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3870
10.7 GB/sec 		5098
14.1 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6048
14.0 Moperations/sec 		6214
69.7 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4841
25.9 GB/sec 		4840
25.8 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, Late 2015) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Multi-Core Score 12916 15011
AES 13393
10.1 GB/sec 		15094
11.4 GB/sec
LZMA 14839
23.2 MB/sec 		14727
23.0 MB/sec
JPEG 17121
137.8 Mpixels/sec 		18378
147.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 14535
201.6 Mpixels/sec 		16084
223.0 Mpixels/sec
Lua 15305
15.7 MB/sec 		17597
18.1 MB/sec
Dijkstra 18881
12.8 MTE/sec 		15706
10.6 MTE/sec
SQLite 11553
320.3 Krows/sec 		15373
426.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 13591
61.7 MB/sec 		15079
68.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 10064
9.12 MElements/sec 		19739
17.9 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 14398
449.9 Mpixels/sec 		16777
524.2 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 14438
383.6 Mpixels/sec 		17968
477.3 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 10882
748.2 functions/sec 		28459
1.96 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 17232
47.8 images/sec 		19331
53.6 images/sec
SGEMM 13749
290.6 Gflops 		15078
318.7 Gflops
SFFT 17851
44.5 Gflops 		18995
47.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 16105
12.0 Mpairs/sec 		17617
13.2 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 14226
2.08 Mpixels/sec 		14278
2.08 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 18939
55441.5 FPS 		19951
58405.2 FPS
HDR 17856
64.7 Mpixels/sec 		19709
71.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 14985
262.5 Mpixels/sec 		19591
343.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 14547
124.5 Words/sec 		13250
113.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 16568
4.84 Msubwindows/sec 		18070
5.28 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5322
14.7 GB/sec 		6199
17.2 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5810
13.4 Moperations/sec 		6153
70.4 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4935
26.4 GB/sec 		4988
26.6 GB/sec

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