iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017) vs Mac mini (Mid 2011)

Geekbench Scores

iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Single-Core Score 4645 2744
Multi-Core Score 13321 5576
Geekbench 4.1.3 Pro Geekbench 4.0.0 Tryout

System Information

iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Operating System macOS 10.13.4 (Build 17E199) Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G1004)
Model iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Processor Intel Core i5-7400 @ 3.00 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores 		Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50 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-77F17D7DA9285301 iMac18,2 Apple Inc. Mac-4BC72D62AD45599E Macmini5,2
BIOS Apple Inc. IM183.88Z.0157.B00.1802080917 Apple Inc. MM51.88Z.0077.B14.1510261805
Memory 8.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Single-Core Score 4645 2744
AES 3972
2.99 GB/sec 		2339
1.76 GB/sec
LZMA 4011
6.26 MB/sec 		2567
4.01 MB/sec
JPEG 4482
36.1 Mpixels/sec 		2924
23.5 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4176
57.9 Mpixels/sec 		2649
36.7 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4436
4.56 MB/sec 		1947
2.00 MB/sec
Dijkstra 5096
3.45 MTE/sec 		3105
2.10 MTE/sec
SQLite 3882
107.6 Krows/sec 		2186
60.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3690
16.8 MB/sec 		2126
9.66 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5073
4.60 MElements/sec 		2917
2.64 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4052
126.6 Mpixels/sec 		2511
78.5 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4126
109.6 Mpixels/sec 		2396
63.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7422
510.4 functions/sec 		2975
204.6 functions/sec
Camera 4658
12.9 images/sec 		2929
8.12 images/sec
SGEMM 4638
98.0 Gflops 		1471
31.1 Gflops
SFFT 5062
12.6 Gflops 		3014
7.51 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4326
3.23 Mpairs/sec 		2155
1.61 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3970
579.8 Kpixels/sec 		2141
312.8 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4985
14592.8 FPS 		3128
9157.7 FPS
HDR 5401
19.6 Mpixels/sec 		2515
9.12 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4736
83.0 Mpixels/sec 		2808
49.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4928
42.2 Words/sec 		2648
22.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 4386
1.28 Msubwindows/sec 		2743
801.3 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4407
12.2 GB/sec 		3088
8.56 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6520
66.4 ns 		5865
13.5 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 4452
23.8 GB/sec 		2692
14.4 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Multi-Core Score 13321 5576
AES 12832
9.66 GB/sec 		4883
3.68 GB/sec
LZMA 13625
21.3 MB/sec 		6770
10.6 MB/sec
JPEG 16679
134.2 Mpixels/sec 		8119
65.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 13940
193.3 Mpixels/sec 		6829
94.7 Mpixels/sec
Lua 16223
16.7 MB/sec 		5159
5.30 MB/sec
Dijkstra 13122
8.88 MTE/sec 		8558
5.79 MTE/sec
SQLite 13640
378.2 Krows/sec 		4911
136.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 13007
59.1 MB/sec 		5113
23.2 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 18275
16.6 MElements/sec 		3426
3.10 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 14281
446.2 Mpixels/sec 		5956
186.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 13209
350.9 Mpixels/sec 		6003
159.5 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 26691
1.84 Kfunctions/sec 		6812
468.4 functions/sec
Camera 17405
48.3 images/sec 		7515
20.8 images/sec
SGEMM 12688
268.2 Gflops 		2874
60.8 Gflops
SFFT 19091
47.6 Gflops 		6506
16.2 Gflops
N-Body Physics 15726
11.7 Mpairs/sec 		4975
3.72 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 13453
1.96 Mpixels/sec 		5699
832.2 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 18461
54044.6 FPS 		8635
25278.8 FPS
HDR 17872
64.8 Mpixels/sec 		6722
24.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 17140
300.3 Mpixels/sec 		5912
103.6 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 11562
98.9 Words/sec 		5882
50.3 Words/sec
Face Detection 16529
4.83 Msubwindows/sec 		6573
1.92 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4717
13.1 GB/sec 		3872
10.7 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6211
69.7 ns 		5929
13.7 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 4531
24.2 GB/sec 		3489
18.6 GB/sec

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