iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2017) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)

Geekbench Scores

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2017) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 4326 6704
Multi-Core Score 8921 24167
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System Information

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2017) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 10.16 (Build 20G80) macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G103)
Model iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2017) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Processor Intel Core i5-7360U @ 2.30 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.20 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 142 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 4096 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-4B682C642B45593E iMac18,1 Apple Inc. Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 1.0
BIOS Apple Inc. 429.140.8.0.0 Apple Inc. 179.0.0.0.0
Memory 16.00 GB 2133 MHz DDR4 32.00 GB 3200 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2017) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 4326 6704
AES 2923
2.20 GB/sec 		4189
3.16 GB/sec
LZMA 3867
6.04 MB/sec 		5764
9.00 MB/sec
JPEG 4510
36.3 Mpixels/sec 		6520
52.5 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3997
55.4 Mpixels/sec 		5841
81.0 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4417
4.54 MB/sec 		6315
6.49 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4814
3.26 MTE/sec 		8054
5.45 MTE/sec
SQLite 3931
109.0 Krows/sec 		5630
156.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4080
18.5 MB/sec 		6283
28.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5182
4.70 MElements/sec 		7244
6.56 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4105
128.3 Mpixels/sec 		5836
182.4 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5448
144.8 Mpixels/sec 		7483
198.8 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7315
503.0 functions/sec 		10601
728.9 functions/sec
Camera 4669
12.9 images/sec 		6637
18.4 images/sec
SGEMM 4632
97.9 Gflops 		6850
144.8 Gflops
SFFT 4733
11.8 Gflops 		7109
17.7 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4383
3.27 Mpairs/sec 		6204
4.63 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4070
594.4 Kpixels/sec 		5743
838.7 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 5046
14773.7 FPS 		7109
20812.0 FPS
HDR 4912
17.8 Mpixels/sec 		7651
27.7 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4890
85.7 Mpixels/sec 		7100
124.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4640
39.7 Words/sec 		7164
61.3 Words/sec
Face Detection 4474
1.31 Msubwindows/sec 		6285
1.84 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3469
9.61 GB/sec 		7050
19.5 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6085
71.1 ns 		8105
53.4 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2137
11.4 GB/sec 		6387
34.1 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2017) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 8921 24167
AES 6619
4.98 GB/sec 		21681
16.3 GB/sec
LZMA 9497
14.8 MB/sec 		26830
41.9 MB/sec
JPEG 11303
91.0 Mpixels/sec 		31861
256.4 Mpixels/sec
Canny 9099
126.2 Mpixels/sec 		25770
357.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 8909
9.16 MB/sec 		25444
26.1 MB/sec
Dijkstra 14646
9.91 MTE/sec 		25916
17.5 MTE/sec
SQLite 8413
233.3 Krows/sec 		24431
677.3 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 7782
35.3 MB/sec 		26846
121.9 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 11507
10.4 MElements/sec 		30340
27.5 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 9224
288.2 Mpixels/sec 		25923
810.0 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 12529
332.9 Mpixels/sec 		30629
813.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 17391
1.20 Kfunctions/sec 		50701
3.49 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 11167
31.0 images/sec 		32301
89.6 images/sec
SGEMM 8301
175.5 Gflops 		22551
476.7 Gflops
SFFT 10516
26.2 Gflops 		30056
74.9 Gflops
N-Body Physics 10140
7.57 Mpairs/sec 		28061
21.0 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 9621
1.40 Mpixels/sec 		26829
3.92 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 13308
38959.5 FPS 		37315
109234.8 FPS
HDR 10804
39.2 Mpixels/sec 		33007
119.7 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 9380
164.3 Mpixels/sec 		29795
522.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 10260
87.8 Words/sec 		19518
167.0 Words/sec
Face Detection 10377
3.03 Msubwindows/sec 		29253
8.54 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3707
10.3 GB/sec 		8416
23.3 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5536
78.2 ns 		8152
53.1 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2325
12.4 GB/sec 		6881
36.7 GB/sec

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