Mac mini (Late 2012) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
Single-Core Score 3304 6502
Multi-Core Score 11505 37257
Geekbench 4.4.2 Geekbench 4.4.2 Tryout

System Information

Mac mini (Late 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
Operating System macOS 10.15.5 (Build 19F101) macOS 10.15.5 (Build 19F101)
Model Mac mini (Late 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
Processor Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 2.30 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60 GHz
1 Processor, 8 Cores, 16 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 13
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 8
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 8
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 8
L3 Cache 6144 KB 16384 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F65AE981FFA204ED Macmini6,2 Apple Inc. Mac-AA95B1DDAB278B95 1.0
BIOS Apple Inc. 284.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. 1037.100.345.0.0
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 32.00 GB 3200 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
Single-Core Score 3304 6502
AES 2618
1.97 GB/sec 		3808
2.87 GB/sec
LZMA 2982
4.66 MB/sec 		5311
8.30 MB/sec
JPEG 3328
26.8 Mpixels/sec 		6422
51.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3113
43.2 Mpixels/sec 		5503
76.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2025
2.08 MB/sec 		6041
6.21 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3781
2.56 MTE/sec 		8661
5.86 MTE/sec
SQLite 2209
61.2 Krows/sec 		5335
147.9 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2621
11.9 MB/sec 		5835
26.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4165
3.77 MElements/sec 		6906
6.26 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2983
93.2 Mpixels/sec 		5555
173.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4007
106.5 Mpixels/sec 		7335
194.9 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5234
359.9 functions/sec 		10133
696.7 functions/sec
Camera 3653
10.1 images/sec 		6429
17.8 images/sec
SGEMM 1826
38.6 Gflops 		6827
144.3 Gflops
SFFT 3460
8.63 Gflops 		7042
17.6 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2847
2.13 Mpairs/sec 		6024
4.50 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2725
397.9 Kpixels/sec 		5694
831.6 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3912
11454.4 FPS 		7010
20522.7 FPS
HDR 3368
12.2 Mpixels/sec 		6881
24.9 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3451
60.5 Mpixels/sec 		6917
121.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3843
32.9 Words/sec 		7036
60.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 3224
941.7 Ksubwindows/sec 		6058
1.77 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3869
10.7 GB/sec 		6990
19.4 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5257
82.3 ns 		7960
54.4 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2962
15.8 GB/sec 		6343
33.9 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
Multi-Core Score 11505 37257
AES 10347
7.79 GB/sec 		20891
15.7 GB/sec
LZMA 14516
22.7 MB/sec 		47856
74.7 MB/sec
JPEG 16680
134.2 Mpixels/sec 		59340
477.5 Mpixels/sec
Canny 14187
196.7 Mpixels/sec 		38230
530.1 Mpixels/sec
Lua 10776
11.1 MB/sec 		43526
44.7 MB/sec
Dijkstra 14689
9.94 MTE/sec 		32208
21.8 MTE/sec
SQLite 10603
294.0 Krows/sec 		42396
1.18 Mrows/sec
HTML5 Parse 12161
55.2 MB/sec 		44591
202.4 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 11635
10.5 MElements/sec 		42129
38.2 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 12747
398.3 Mpixels/sec 		45438
1.42 Gpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 13672
363.2 Mpixels/sec 		43262
1.15 Gpixels/sec
LLVM 22436
1.54 Kfunctions/sec 		86064
5.92 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 16662
46.2 images/sec 		57769
160.2 images/sec
SGEMM 6610
139.7 Gflops 		26421
558.5 Gflops
SFFT 14176
35.3 Gflops 		54619
136.2 Gflops
N-Body Physics 13004
9.71 Mpairs/sec 		51702
38.6 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 12803
1.87 Mpixels/sec 		43558
6.36 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 17248
50492.7 FPS 		66573
194883.8 FPS
HDR 14409
52.2 Mpixels/sec 		47496
172.2 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 13483
236.2 Mpixels/sec 		54493
954.6 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 11399
97.5 Words/sec 		24433
209.0 Words/sec
Face Detection 14193
4.15 Msubwindows/sec 		54057
15.8 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4982
13.8 GB/sec 		8715
24.1 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5408
80.0 ns 		7936
54.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3603
19.2 GB/sec 		6894
36.8 GB/sec

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